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Sergeant John Albert Napier

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Military service

Service number: 106450
Age: 24
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth: December 5, 1891
Death: September 15, 1916

Burial/memorial information

POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: IV. B. 21.
Additional information
Son of John and Abigail M. Napier, of Reston, Manitoba.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 141 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Pozieres is a village some 6 kilometres north-east of Albert, and the POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, which is enclosed by the Pozieres Memorial, is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres.

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