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Military service
Service number:
L/65402
Age:
26
Rank:
Signalman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Birth:
July 25, 1918
Milestone, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
May 20, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 14, 1944
In the field, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 6.
Additional information
Son of Walter and Susan Black from Saskatchewan, Canada
Digital gallery of Signalman Alvin Howard Black
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Grave Marker
Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Entrance … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice located in Plots 4 and 4A … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
View of Plot 3 … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Signalman Alvin Howard Black
Digital gallery of
Signalman Alvin Howard Black
Digital gallery of
Signalman Alvin Howard Black
Digital gallery of
Signalman Alvin Howard Black
Digital gallery of
Signalman Alvin Howard Black
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 251 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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