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Military service
Service number:
74106
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
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St. Peters Church, Simonstone
Church showing the First and Second World War Memorials. -
War Memorial
First World War Memorial -
Inscription
Simonstone Parish World War I: New Memorial With additional names. -
Dedication
Counterclockwise from Right to left: Corporal Stacy Bouch, Mayoress of Ribble Valley, Mayor of Ribble Valley, Member of the British Legion, Michael Fairhurst, Q.C. Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire David Peat, O.B.E. Chairman, Simonstone Parish Council -
Photo of ROBERT JAMES BRECKELL
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Robert James Breckell
In his uniform. Photo found in a locket belonging to his sister Florence. -
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)
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert James Breckell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 58 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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