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Military service
Service number:
696485
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
December 8, 1880
Flushing, Netherlands
Enlistment:
March 8, 1916
Alberta
Death:
April 19, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 27.
Additional information
Son of Gerardus and Johanna Balkenstein, of Terneuzen, Holland. Husband of Mary N. Balkenstein, of Vale, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Private Dirk Laurens Balkenstein
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Private Dirk Laurens Balkenstein
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 195 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Aubigny Communal Cemetery is south of the village of Aubigny-en-Artois and the Cemetery Extension is behind it. The village of Aubigny-en-Artois is approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol. After turning into the village from the N.39 on the D.75, the Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village.
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