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Military service
Service number:
790657
Age:
41
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
Carrington, Midlothian., Scotland
Death:
August 17, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIA. C. 18.
Additional information
Son of William and Mary Douglas, of Janebank, Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland.
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 531 of 1076. He was originally buried in Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road. After the Armistice, his body was exhumed and buried in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
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Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 399 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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