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Military service
Service number:
51136
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
December 26, 1889
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
May 8, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Digital gallery of Private Albert Edward Dight
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 465 of 1084. He was buried near the Footbridge to the right of Lille Gate, Ypres, Belgium. Subsequently, his grave could not be found, hence his sacrifice is commemorated at MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL.
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Edward Dight
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Edward Dight
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Edward Dight
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Edward Dight
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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