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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
36
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Death:
August 12, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IIIA. AA. 2.
Additional information
Son of Edward and Emily Gilliat, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middx., England.
Digital gallery of Major Edward Norman Gilliat
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Grave marker
Image courtesy of WRPF. Visit to France and Flanders: September 2013. -
Grave marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Telegraph of August 19, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12215467/Daily-Telegraph-August-19-1918.html -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Norman Gilliat
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Norman Gilliat
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Norman Gilliat
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Norman Gilliat
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Norman Gilliat
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Norman Gilliat
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Commemorated on:
Page 414 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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