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Military service
Service number:
77590
Age:
24
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Death:
June 4, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sp. Mem. H. 17.
Additional information
Son of Robert and M. Gordon, of Hillbank, British Columbia. Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Alexander Gordon
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Railway Dugouts Burial Ground
The Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Cemetery, located approximately 3 kilometres to the south of Ieper, Belgium. May they rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial Stained Glass
St Andrews Anglican, Cowichan Station, B.C. -
Grave Marker
Grave marker ... Railway Dugouts Burial Ground … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 17, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y162uvic#mode/1up.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 93 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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