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Military service
Service number:
835528
Age:
41
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
August 30, 1885
Death:
April 23, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William W. and Annie Barnes Powell, of Moncton, New Brunswick; husband of Katherine Avola Powell, of Napanee, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Edmund Powell
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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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription on a family grave marker located at Elmwood Cemetery, Moncton NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD)
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Private William Edmund Powell
Digital gallery of
Private William Edmund Powell
Digital gallery of
Private William Edmund Powell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 311 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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