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Military service
Service number:
53389
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
June 8, 1884
Death:
April 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. A. 4.
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Virginia Sapienza, of 22, Strada, San Trofimo, Seiema, Malta.
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Circumstances of Death
Circumstances of Death Register: "Killed in Action." When on duty in the front lines trench at St. Eloi on the night of April 26th, 1916 during a heavy bombardment a shell exploded in the bay of the trench, in which he and several comrades were on duty, and he was killed instantly. -
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Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Edgar Sapienza
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 158 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3 Belgium
Voormezeele Enclosure No. 3 is located 4 kilometres south-west of Ieper town centre on the Ruusschaartstraat, a road leading from the Kemmelseweg (Connecting Ieper to Kemmel N331). From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and straight on towards Armentieres (N365). 900 metres after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg (made prominent by a railway level crossing). Turn right onto the Kemmelseweg and follow this road to the first crossroads, turn left here into Ruusschaartstraat. The Cemetery is located 1 kilometre after this junction on the left hand side of the road just before Voormezeele Dorp.
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