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In memory of:

Private William Daniel Acorn

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Military service

Service number: 2378937
Age: 26
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry Division
Division: 8th Bn
Birth: February 4, 1895 Dundas, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment: November 20, 1917 Manitoba
Death: November 29, 1921 Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Son of John Acorn of Dundas, Prince Edward Island.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 605 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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