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Military service
Service number:
530107
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
8th Field Amb.
Birth:
September 14, 1887
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
August 28, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. A. 12.
Digital gallery of Private Alexander William Cosgrove
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
The Calgary Herald June 7, 1916 -
Attestation Paper
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Obituary
Calgary Herald 7 June 1916 -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 251 of 900.
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander William Cosgrove
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander William Cosgrove
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander William Cosgrove
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander William Cosgrove
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander William Cosgrove
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
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