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Military service
Service number:
703020
Age:
30
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Coy. 102nd Bn.
Birth:
June 28, 1886
Death:
August 19, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
L. 4.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Agnes Simmers, of 1523, Edgware Rd., Victoria, British Columbia. Born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Richard Simmers
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Newspaper Clipping
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Gravemarker
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Dickebushe Cemetery's Entrance
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Circumstances of death registers
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Grave marker
9 August 2019, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group). -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 8, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y233uvic/mode/1up?view=theater.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Simmers
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Simmers
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Simmers
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Simmers
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Simmers
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Simmers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 162 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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