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Private Albert Roy Currie

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Military service

Service number: 805222
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 87th Bn.
Birth: March 16, 1896 Bolsover, Ontario
Enlistment: January 19, 1916 Ontario
Death: April 9, 1917 Vimy Ridge, France

Burial/memorial information

CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2
Grave reference: 1.C.46.
Additional information
Son of Donald and Minnie Currie of Bolsover, Ontario. Prior to his enlistment with the 136th Battalion, Private Currie had one year's experience with the 14th Field Artillery and was employed as a baker.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 224 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.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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