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Private Benjamin Chaplain

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Military service

Service number: 147716
Age: 30
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 78th Bn.
Enlistment: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: March 31, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Mil. 85.
Additional information
Son of the late Robert and Charlotte Ann Chaplain, of Roulston House, Oulton, Stone, Staffs, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 383 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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John Spiers Brown
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Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
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John Theodore Wright
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Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
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John Thomas Smy
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Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
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John Thomas Young
Corporal
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
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John Valentine Nelson
Lance Corporal
Veterans Guard of Canada
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John Wallace Griffiths
Private
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
830543
John William Gibbins
Sergeant
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
71258
John William Henderson
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
180066
John William Sharley
Corporal
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
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John William Skeggs
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
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John Woodrooffe
Private
Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Jonathan Wiggins
Bombardier
Canadian Artillery
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Joseph Alfred Stacey
Private
Canadian Field Artillery
1250022
Joseph Chaboyer
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
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Joseph Fawcett
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Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
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Joseph McMurray
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Joseph Reuben Fraser
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
859947
Joseph Rosik
Private
Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps
2184607
Joseph Smith
Private
Veterans Guard of Canada
H/54377
Joseph William Illingworth
Electrical Artificer 4th Class
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
V/24433

 

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