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Military service
Service number:
409347
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
43rd Bn.
Birth:
June 9, 1897
Tilsonburg, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 20, 1915
Niagara, Ontario
Death:
September 21, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Effie May Miners of Little Current, Ontario. Brother of Ernest Miners.
Additional citations
British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Nelson Miners
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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) -
Vimy 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)
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Private Nelson Miners
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Miners
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 136 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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