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Military service
Service number:
455268
Age:
32
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
May 3, 1884
Death:
October 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 7.
Additional information
Son of Champion and Caroline Doxsee; husband of Mrs. Mabel Doxsee, of Peterborough, Ontario.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal George Ernest Doxsee
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 753 of 1076. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Ernest Doxsee
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Ernest Doxsee
2ND CANADIAN CEMETERY Somme, France
The 2nd Canadian Cemetery lies in the fields on Accommodation road 400 metres east of the main Contalmaison to Pozieres road. Contalmaison is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The sunken road from which this cemetery is named is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road. The cemetery lies in the fields on Accommodation road 400 metres east of the main Contalmaison to Pozieres road. The cemetery was made in July-October, 1916, during the middle fighting in the Somme offensive. There are now over 40, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The Cemetery covers an area of 383 square metres and is enclosed by a low red brick wall.
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