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Military service
Service number:
216110
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
78th Bn.
Birth:
December 10, 1891
Umeå, Sweden
Enlistment:
January 10, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mrs. A.G. Backlund of Teulon, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Gunnar Jonas Backlund
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Newspaper Clipping
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 -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 39 of 1072. -
Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Gunnar Jonas Backlund
Digital gallery of
Private Gunnar Jonas Backlund
Digital gallery of
Private Gunnar Jonas Backlund
Digital gallery of
Private Gunnar Jonas Backlund
Digital gallery of
Private Gunnar Jonas Backlund
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 194 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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