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Military service
Service number:
463601
Age:
20
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
August 4, 1896
Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment:
August 21, 1915
Vernon, British Columbia
Death:
November 11, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. I. 40.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Gilbert Blank
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Photo of Gilbert Blank
Gilbert Blank, born 4 August 1896, Victoria British Columbia. Joined C.E.F. 31 July 1915, at which time both parents deceased: Paul Martin Louis Kastner Blank,(German) and Wilhelmina Addison Ballentine, (Scottish) Primary next of kin on Attestation Papers: step-mother, Mrs Agnes Blank, (German) -
Grave Marker
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Photo of Gilbert Blank
Gilbert in England, circa 1916, before being shipped to France -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of December 2, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y306uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Gilbert Blank
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Gilbert Blank
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Gilbert Blank
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Gilbert Blank
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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