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Private William Melling

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Military service

Service number: 195154
Age: 42
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division: 1ST Bn.
Birth: April 13, 1876 Fylde, England
Enlistment: October 20, 1915 Ontario
Death: August 17, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. O. 10.
Additional information

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Melling, of Salwick, Preston, Lancs, England; husband of Esther Melling, of Keene, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 469 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CERISY-GAILLY MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Cerisy is a village 11 kilometres south of Albert, 2 kilometres east of the main road from Albert to Moreuil. The CERISY-GAILLY MILITARY CEMETERY is on the west side of the village on the road to Gailly and Le Hamel and the French National Cemetery is on the south side of this.

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