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Military service
Service number:
675567
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Death:
August 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 33.
Additional information
Son of John O. and Sophrona E. Given, of Drumbo, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Andrew Given
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Monument
A shaft with statue (granite and bronze) at 32 Wilmot Street South, Drumbo, ON. Erected by the Village of Drumbo, this memorial was unveiled in 1920 and dedicated in loving memory of local fallen heroes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [front/devant] ARTHUR G. COWAN FERGUSON COOK A. JAMES GIBSON ROBERT A. GIVEN J. CHRYSLER KILGOUR FRANCIS A. LAW FREDERICK LODGE ROBERT M. McTAGUE WILLIAM R. WILSON IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN HEROES 1914 - 1918 [side/côté] IN LOVING MEORY OF ALFRED E. CLAYTON J. McBETH MURRAY BENTLEY ROBSON CHARLES H. WALLACE 1939 - 1945 "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN." Photo Credit: Allison Nelson; Derek Pullen http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=592 -
Biography
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Andrew Given
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Andrew Given
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 244 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.
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