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Military service
Service number:
McGill 71.
Age:
22
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
April 6, 1894
Neepawa, Manitoba
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. F. 1.
Additional information
Son of Robert William and Catherine Emily Parsons, of 9529-103rd Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta. He was a student at the University of Alberta and was Captain of the Champion University Rugby team.
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Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons is also commemorated on the Menin Gate ... Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons is also commemorated on the Menin Gate ... Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
Corporal Ernest Howard McGill is also commemorated on the Menin Gate ... Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons
Digital gallery of
Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons
Digital gallery of
Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons
Digital gallery of
Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons
Digital gallery of
Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons
Digital gallery of
Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons
Digital gallery of
Corporal Ernest Howard Parsons
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 145 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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