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Military service
Service number:
304504
Age:
23
Rank:
Acting Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
11th Bde.
Birth:
February 16, 1893
Enlistment:
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
November 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. F. 12.
Additional information
Son of Edward J. Corkill, of Napanee, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
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Photo of Edward Corkill
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Photo of Edward Fair Corkill
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 89 of 900. Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill was originally buried in the field near Martinpuich, 6 ½ miles East-North-East of Albert. After the Armistice his body was exhumed and re-interred in the newly created Adanac Military Cemetery.
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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