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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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Charles Yeomans
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Christopher Arthur Silver
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Christopher Bagnall Horton
Gunner
Canadian Field Artillery
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Clarence Rose
Private
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
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Claude Felton
Private
Canadian Mounted Rifles
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Clifford Alexander Harvey
Leading Aircraftman
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/172898
Clifford Horsfall
Stoker 2nd Class
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Murphy
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
The Canadian Provost Corps
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Currie Arthur Sanderson
Rifleman
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
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Daniel George Reeves
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
148492
Daniel Henry Ellis
Trooper
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), R.C.A.C.
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Daniel Newman
Aircraftman 2nd Class
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Allen Jones
Leading Aircraftman
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Brown
Private
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David Earl Anderson
Flight Lieutenant
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Edmond
Cadet
Royal Flying Corps
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David George Harries
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
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David Leslie Thompson Wilson
Pilot Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Miller
Private
Prince Edward Island Highlanders
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David Shearer
Sergeant
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
420796

 

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