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Military service
Service number:
151617
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
43rd Bn.
Birth:
May 2, 1893
Death:
September 21, 1916
Vicinity of Courcelette
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. B. 9.
Additional information
Son of Samuel B. Drake, of Mill St., Comber, Co. Down, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Private James Edgar Drake
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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 833 of 1076.
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Private James Edgar Drake
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 80 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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