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Military service
Service number:
177559
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
87th Bn.
Birth:
March 19, 1894
Grouville, Isle of Jersey
Enlistment:
November 4, 1915
Gaspe, Québec
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1.B.28.
Additional information
Son of John Bertram of East Lynn, Isle of Jersey.
Digital gallery of Private Leonard William Bertram
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Photo of Leonard William Bertram
This photograph of Private LEONARD WILLIAM BERTRAM is from Photographic Record and Souvenir of the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion "Eighty Seventh" (1916). Colonel F.S. Meighen O.C. Page 45, Number Fifteen Platoon. -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Canadian Cemetery No. 2 is located by the grounds of Canada's Vimy Memorial. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres north of Arras, France. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Canadian Cemetery No 2
Canadian Cemetery No. 2 - The Canadian Cemetery No. 2 is located on Vimy Ridge and is attached to the grounds of Canada's Vimy Memorial. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres north of Arras, France.(John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Grave marker
25 April 2018
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 200 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 Pas de Calais, France
The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.
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