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Name: MACKAIN-BREMNER, Alexander Fergus OBE (Col.)

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Birth Date: 1929 Brentford

First Date: 1957

Last Date: 1960

Profession: Regimental Signals Officer and Adjutant 11th King's African Rifles

Area: Nanyuki, Nairobi

Married: 1. In Horsham 1951 Susan Platt (dau of Charles Platt of Dimilil, Naro Moru); 2 . In Kensington 1991 Dawn V. Conington

Children: 2 daughters; 4 sons

Book Reference: KAR, Rhino Link 20

War Service: 11th KAR

School: Rokeby Prep School, Berkhamsted School, RMA Sandhurst

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Rhino Link 20 - 'Fergus Mackain-Bremner describes his family background as "military bucolic", which seems an accurate summing-up of his own career too. Including his sons, ten of his family were commissioned from Sandhurst. Four of his senior relatives were killed during the 1914-18 war. Following Berkhampsted School, where he was Head of House and an Under Officer in the CCF, Fergus entered Sandhurst in January 1948 ……( lots more)
OBE 1972

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