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Military service
Service number:
123062
Age:
40
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 13, 1880
Exeter, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 2, 1915
Ontario
Death:
April 20, 1921
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Son of William and Jane Russell. Husband of Rose H. Russell, Exeter, Ontario. He stated he was a farmer. He sailed from Halifax on the S.S. Lapland on 24 April 1916. He was discharged in London, Ontario on 30 June 1917.
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Commemorated on:
Page 559 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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EXETER CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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