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Military service
Service number:
73875
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
October 18, 1883
Death:
June 6, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of the late George Henry Luke Cann and Emma Cann.
Digital gallery of Private Percy Cann
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Photo of PERCY CANN
In memory of the men from the 28th Battalion CEF who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 35 of 1004. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Cann
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Cann
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Cann
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 64 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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