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Private Cicero Blackburn

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Military service

Service number: 422426
Age: 37
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division: 28th Bn.
Birth: November 22, 1878 Colne, Lancs, England
Enlistment: Manitoba
Death: July 2, 1916

Burial/memorial information

MOORSEELE MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: V. AA. 7.
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Mary Blackburn, of "Happy Days" Van, Morecambe, Lancs, England.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MOORSEELE MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium

Moorseele Military Cemetery is located 20 kilometres east of Ieper town centre on a road leading from the N8, connecting Ieper to Menen and onto Wevelgem. On reaching Wevelgem the left hand turning onto Lode de Boningestraat leads onto the Roeselarestraat and on for 3.5 kilometresm to Moorseele. On reaching Moorseele the cemetery is to be accessed by entering a small housing estate called Minister de Taeyelaan, situated off Secretaris Vanmarckelaan.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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