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Military service
Service number:
126204
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
54th Bn.
Birth:
August 14, 1897
Death:
October 14, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Frank Elvin
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Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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
Frank Elvin of Guelph, Ontario, was not yet twenty years old when he went missing in action in the last stages of the Battle of the Somme in October 1916. The date on the mourning card likely refers to the date that official notification reached his family. "In loving memory of our dear son, Frank Bernard Elvin, killed in action on February 11th, 1917" Mourning card 11.7cm x 7.9cm Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario -
Memorial
Frank Elvin of Guelph, Ontario, was not yet twenty years old when he went missing in action in the last stages of the Battle of the Somme in October 1916. The date on the mourning card likely refers to the date that official notification reached his family. "In loving memory of our dear son, Frank Bernard Elvin, killed in action on February 11th, 1917" Mourning card 11.7cm x 7.9cm Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Elvin
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Elvin
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Elvin
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Elvin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 83 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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