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Aleck Gunn

Corporal

Service No. S/40250

Age 25

Died on 2 December 1916

Gordon Highlanders

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

Somme, France

Grandson of Alexander and Isabella Ewen, of Lochside, Whitehills, Banffshire. Native of King Edward, Aberdeen.

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Henry Harrison

Aleck, O valiant heart, who to your glory came….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Uncle Aleck, I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you. Taking care of your medals.

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Katrina Spence

Uncle Aleck, I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you. Taking care of your medals.

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Aleck, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blown ...

Henry Harrison

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Aleck worked on farms in the north east of Scotland. He was my husband’s uncle.  He was one of 3 brothers who served in ww1 in the Gordon...

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