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Military service
Service number:
116962
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
October 16, 1898
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
August 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Rebecca Bland, of Beaver Creek, Alberni, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Lyall Layzelle Bland
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 8, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y234uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
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) -
Photo of LYALL LAYZELLE BLAND
From the Daily Colonist of September 15, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y240uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Lyall Layzelle Bland
Digital gallery of
Private Lyall Layzelle Bland
Digital gallery of
Private Lyall Layzelle Bland
Digital gallery of
Private Lyall Layzelle Bland
Digital gallery of
Private Lyall Layzelle Bland
Digital gallery of
Private Lyall Layzelle Bland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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