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Military service
Service number:
145303
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
44th Bn.
Enlistment:
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
August 23, 1917
Lens, France
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Francis William Bacon
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Photo of Francis William Bacon
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
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 49 of 1072. -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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 Francis William Bacon
Digital gallery of
Private Francis William Bacon
Digital gallery of
Private Francis William Bacon
Digital gallery of
Private Francis William Bacon
Digital gallery of
Private Francis William Bacon
Digital gallery of
Private Francis William Bacon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 194 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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