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Bombardier John Ernest Nelson

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Military service

Service number: 86451
Age: 23
Rank: Bombardier
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 7th Bde.
Birth: June 4, 1893
Death: October 4, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. C. 17.
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Son of Thomas Ernest Howard Nelson and Sarah Jane Nelson, of Carberry, Manitoba.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 141 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.

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