William Gilbert Booth BREMNER

Regimental number24852
OccupationClerk
Next of kinAunt, Mrs D L Parris, 6 Carnarvon Street, Gisborne
Rank on embarkationSergeant
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 14th Reinforcements
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Waihora on 10 July 1916
Final rankTrooper
Final unitWellington Mounted Rifles Regiment
FateDied of wounds 20 July 1917
Age at death from cemetery records22
Place of burialBeersheba War Cemetery (Row Q, Grave No 53), Palestine
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
William G. and Mary A. Bremner, Mangaorapa, Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay. Native of Gisborne
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 11/213 Lance Corporal John Robertson BREMNER, No 1 Company, New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, killed in action, 22 June 1916; 11/215 Trooper James Halloran BREMNER, 9th Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, died of wounds, 8 September 1915.
Other detailsWar service: Egypt, Palestine
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 2: Roll 35, p. 1

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