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Military service
Service number:
8429
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
February 13, 1896
Calabogie, Renfrew, Ontario
Enlistment:
Renfrew, Ontario
Death:
April 22, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Samuel John and Ida Dempsay, of Cochrane, Ontario.
Brother of Private Samuel John Dempsay, who was killed in action on October 15, 1915, while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario) Regiment and he is buried at R.E. Farm Cemetery.
Digital gallery of Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Newspaper clipping
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Attestation Papers
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Circumstance of Death
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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