Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Thomas Ernest Howard Nelson and Sarah Jane Nelson, of Carberry, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Bombardier John Ernest Nelson
Digital gallery of
Bombardier John Ernest Nelson
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Bombardier John Ernest Nelson
University of Manitoba Roll of Honour 1914-1918. Winnipeg, 1923. Roll of the Fallen (pg. 23) - "NELSON, John Ernest: Arts '16; Enlisted 17-11-14; Gnr. 13th Batty.; Service in France; Killed in Action 14-10-16." (These details were published in the University honour roll - there may be discrepancies in this information which was gathered from friends and relations).
Digital gallery of
Bombardier John Ernest Nelson
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
Image gallery
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In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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University of Manitoba Roll of Honour 1914-1918. Winnipeg, 1923. Roll of the Fallen (pg. 23) - "NELSON, John Ernest: Arts '16; Enlisted 17-11-14; Gnr. 13th Batty.; Service in France; Killed in Action 14-10-16." (These details were published in the University honour roll - there may be discrepancies in this information which was gathered from friends and relations).
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Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 141 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.
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