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Military service
Service number:
1051560
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Birth:
May 19, 1891
Castle Douglas, Scotland
Enlistment:
December 28, 1916
Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Robert and Ellen (nee Dugan) McKen of Orcadia, Saskatchewan. Brother of Lance Corporal William John McKen, 5th Battalion, killed in action on 23 June 1917
Additional citations
British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Robert McKen
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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 Robert McKen
Digital gallery of
Private Robert McKen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 284 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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