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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
53rd Bty. 13th Bde.
Birth:
January 23, 1886
Little Shelford, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
January 5, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
January 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
North of Church.
Additional information
Son of the late Rev. Harcourt Powell, of Wollaston Vicarage, Wellingborough, Northants, and Cecile H. Powell, Coventry, England.
Digital gallery of Major Vernon Harcourt De Butts Powell
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Family Tree
Vernon's mother, Sarah was in a family of six 1.)Margaret 2.) John 3.) Samuel 4.)Sarah 5.) Ezekiel 6.)Elizabeth .Sarah being his mother . I descend from Samuel. It is good to have him placed on the family chart where he belongs -
Newspaper clipping
From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Vernon Harcourt De Butts Powell
Major Powell, former teacher and house master at Appleby School, now Appleby College, shown "somewhere in France". A boarding house is named in his honour at the College. Photo from the Appleby College Archives. -
Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press); -
Memorial
The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press); -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 487 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LITTLE SHELFORD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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