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Military service
Service number:
475064
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
January 11, 1881
Death:
June 14, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of the late Hugh McKay Draffin, of 14A, Salisbury St., Edinburgh, Scotland; husband of Margaret (nee McGowan) Draffin, of 1895, William Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 823 of 1076. No record of burial. -
Photo of Ernest Richard Draffin (1914)
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Private Ernest Richard Draffin
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Private Ernest Richard Draffin
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Richard Draffin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 79 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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