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Driver Gordon Shelmerdine

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Military service

Service number: 86299
Age: 20
Rank: Driver
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 5th Bde.
Birth: April 1, 1896
Death: May 9, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. A. 37.
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Son of Dan and Martha H. Shelmerdine, of 122, Roseberry St., St. James, Manitoba.

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Barlin is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Bethune on the D188, between the Bethune-Arras and Bethune-St. Pol roads, about 6.5 kilometres south-east of Bruay. The BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSION lie to the north of the village on the D171 road to Houchin.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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