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Military service
Service number:
447621
Age:
17
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Birth:
October 24, 1899
Medicine Creek
Enlistment:
September 14, 1915
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
November 19, 1916
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Additional information
Son of John and Lucy Morgan, of Cochrane, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Private David Melvin Morgan
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Group photo
David Melvin Morgan is on the left and I believe this is the only picture ever taken of David in his uniform. I don't know who the other soldier in the photo is. On the back of this photo, my Grandmother (Lela Morgan) wrote - David Morgan 1915. We knew he was KIA in France in 1916 or 1917, but thought he was buried in Flanders Fields. David's full brother, Coleman Morgan (my Grandfather) was born in Blackhawk, S. Dakota on June 16, 1898 and I believe this was David's birthplace also, as their Mother was a full blooded Souix Lakota aboriginal lady from the area. After she passed, John and the boys moved to Canada when they were young, and settled near Bottrel, NWT (AB), north of Cochrane, where this photo was taken. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private David Melvin Morgan
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Private David Melvin Morgan
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Private David Melvin Morgan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 138 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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