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Military service
Service number:
415233
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
25th Bn.
Birth:
December 7, 1892
Death:
September 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 21.
Additional information
Son of William Edward and Tamer Redpath Wilson, of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 183 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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