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Private Benjamin Edward Kaine

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Military service

Service number: 793341
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 87th Bn.
Birth: May 8, 1893 Mann’s Settlement, Bonaventure
Enlistment: January 19, 1916 New Brunswick
Death: June 9, 1917 Vimy, France

Burial/memorial information

CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2
Grave reference: Sp. Mem.
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Son of David Edward Kaine and Elizabeth Ann Gilker of Campbellton, New Brunswick.

Brother of Private James Albert Kaine, who died of tuberculosis while serving with the Canadian Infantry, 132nd Battalion CEF (Quebec Regiment) and uncle of Rifleman Thomas Wellington Snear, who died as a prisoner of war in Japan while serving with the Royal Rifles of Canada.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 266 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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