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Military service
Service number:
552993
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Division:
"D" Coy. P.P.C.L.I.
Birth:
April 25, 1887
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
March 27, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. H. 18.
Additional information
Son of James and Harriet Canning, of Liverpool, England.
Digital gallery of Private Herbert Norman Canning
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Coupure de presse
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
coupure de presse
Pte. Herbert Norman Canning was born in Liverpool, England. He enlisted in Calgary, Alberta, on April 4th, 1916. In honoured memory. -
Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 47 of 1004. -
Coupure de presse
From the Daily Colonist of April 10, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y103uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Norman Canning
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Norman Canning
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Norman Canning
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Norman Canning
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 213 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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