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Military service
Service number:
2022597
Age:
29
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Birth:
August 2, 1889
Ottumwa, Iowa
Enlistment:
March 25, 1918
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
October 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
18. 35. 4.
Additional information
Son of Julian Wilson of Redvers, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Sapper Roy Harris Wilson
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Grave marker
Grave of 2022597 Sapper Roy Harris Wilson who served with the Canadian Engneers C.E.F. Born in Ottumwa Iowa U.S.A. on Aug. 2nd 1889. He enlisted into the C.E.F. at Vancouver BC on March 25th 1918 listing his occupation as "Chiropodist" He died during the Spanish Flu panademic of 1918-19 on Oct. 27th 1918 at the age of 29. He was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC. Born an American he died defending Canada Lest We Forget. -
Memorial Cross
Memorial cross in the cemetery where 2022597 Sapper Roy Harris Wilson who served with the Canadian Engneers C.E.F. was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC. -
Cemetery
Cemetery view of the section where 2022597 Sapper Roy Harris Wilson who served with the Canadian Engneers C.E.F. was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC.
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Sapper Roy Harris Wilson
Digital gallery of
Sapper Roy Harris Wilson
Digital gallery of
Sapper Roy Harris Wilson
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Commemorated on:
Page 524 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VANCOUVER (MOUNTAIN VIEW) CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada
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