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Military service
Service number:
150692
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
August 2, 1890
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Reuben Frederick Wilson
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Group Photo
This photo is of the men from Elgin, Manitoba who were members of the 79th Overseas Batallion during WWI. Of the 19 men in this photo, the following 9 men died in action during the war: Frank James, Clifford Honeyman, John Spratt, Reuben Wilson, Edward Thorpe, William Passmore, Charles Webster, Kenneth Conacher, and William Marshall. -
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)
Digital gallery of
Private Reuben Frederick Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private Reuben Frederick Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 184 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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