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Military service
Service number:
71253
Age:
40
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
27th Bn.
Birth:
January 25, 1876
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 13.
Digital gallery of Private James White Douglas
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Photo de JAMES WHITE DOUGLAS
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Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 491 of 1076. His grave was located between Pozieres and Courcelette, 4 ½ miles North East of Albert. After the armistice, his body was exhumed and re-interred in COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY.
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Private James White Douglas
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Private James White Douglas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 79 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Courcelette is a village some 10 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert, just off the D929 road to Bapaume. The Courcelette British Cemetery is approximately 1 kilometre west of the village on the south side of a track, suitable for cars, from the secondary road from Courcelette to Pozieres. The route is signposted in the village.
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