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Lieutenant Gilbert Edwards

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Military Cross (MC)

Military service

Age: 36
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division: 2nd Bn.
Birth: August 29, 1881 Zion, Hope Township, Ontario
Enlistment: December 26, 1914 Ontario
Death: September 11, 1917 Lens, France

Burial/memorial information

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION.
Grave reference: I. B. 12.
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Son of William and Agnes Edwards, of Port Hope, Ontario. Lieutenant Edwards enlisted early in the war as a Lieutenant. As he was not qualified, he attended Military School in Peterborough where he won the rank of Captain. He enlisted with the 39th Battalion on 26 December 1914.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 233 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION. Pas de Calais, France

Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town on the south-east of the road to Labourse. The NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION is on the west side of the Communal Cemetery.

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