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Military service
Service number:
503841
Age:
20
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
11th Field Coy.
Birth:
February 5, 1896
Death:
November 11, 1916
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Additional information
Son of Patrick Cahill, and Mary Scott Cahill, of Inverness, Nova Scotia.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Sapper Francis Xavier Cahill
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Photo of FRANCIS XAVIER CAHILL
From the book, Catholics of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia and the Great War 1914- 1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: PIcture Me -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sapper Francis Xavier Cahill
Digital gallery of
Sapper Francis Xavier Cahill
Digital gallery of
Sapper Francis Xavier Cahill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 62 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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