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Digital gallery of Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. This book includes hundreds of photographs of soldiers, however, there were often discrepancies in editing between the details published, and the official record. The attestation papers confirm this soldier's identity.
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Bob(Robert)Dewar and Edward Findlay. Photo taken between 1915 and 1917
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
The grave marker at the Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013)
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Bois Carre British Cemetery - The Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial.(John & Anne Stephens 2013)
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 141 of 1084. He was buried just South of Vimy, 3 ¾ miles South of Lens. Subsequently, his body was exhumed and re-interred in BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY.
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From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. This book includes hundreds of photographs of soldiers, however, there were often discrepancies in editing between the details published, and the official record. The attestation papers confirm this soldier's identity.
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Bob(Robert)Dewar and Edward Findlay. Photo taken between 1915 and 1917
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The grave marker at the Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013)
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Bois Carre British Cemetery - The Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial.(John & Anne Stephens 2013)
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 141 of 1084. He was buried just South of Vimy, 3 ¾ miles South of Lens. Subsequently, his body was exhumed and re-interred in BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY.
BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.
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