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Military service
Service number:
528616
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
February 7, 1898
Death:
May 4, 1917
Fresnoy, France
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Only son of Edward Spring, of Brantford, Ontario, and the late Naomi Spring. Previously served with Royal Army Medical Corps.
Digital gallery of Private Edward Spring
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Photo of Edward Spring
Enlisted with the 10th Stationary Hospital. Transferred to the 2nd Canadian Battalion. Killedy at Fresnoy. -
Memorial
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) -
From the London Free Press May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Edward Spring
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Spring
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 330 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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