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Military service
Service number:
77309
Age:
36
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
June 6, 1880
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Ezekiel and Isobel Simmons.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Irwin Howard Simmons
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Creston War Memorial
War Memorial, Creston & District, British Columbia. Also included are names from men from nearby Erickson and Wynndel. The Cenotaph was unveiled on November 11th, 1922. There are 26 names inscribed on the granite memorial representing those local men who died during World War One. A stone panel was added at a later date to include 29 names of those who died during World War Two. Located at 137 11th Avenue North, in front of the local Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 29). In honoured memory. -
Inscription
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Creston War Memorial
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Sergeant Irwin Howard Simmons
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Irwin Howard Simmons
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Irwin Howard Simmons
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Irwin Howard Simmons
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 326 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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