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Lance Corporal William Harland Balcom

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Military service

Service number: 282892
Age: 19
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Railway Troops
Division: 12th Bn.
Birth: September 12, 1898
Enlistment: Nova Scotia
Death: April 24, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: C. 9.
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Son of D. Morse Balcom and Hattie A. Balcom, of Lawrencetown, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia.

ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France

The town of Frevent is 9.5 kilometres south of St Pol and 16 kilometres south-east of Hesdin. ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY and EXTENSION is on the eastern side of the town on the south side of the secondary road to Sericourt.

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