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Military service
Service number:
628558
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
January 19, 1893
Death:
November 11, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Sergeant Alexander Howell Desbrisay
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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) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 929 of 1036. Buried in front of Regina Trench. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Alexander Howell Desbrisay
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alexander Howell Desbrisay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alexander Howell Desbrisay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alexander Howell Desbrisay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alexander Howell Desbrisay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alexander Howell Desbrisay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 77 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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