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Military service
Service number:
K/74743
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
July 17, 1921
Bield, Manitoba
Enlistment:
January 29, 1941
Vernon, British Columbia
Death:
August 27, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 3.
Additional information
Son of Albert and Iona Muriel Olson, of Cinema, British Columbia. Husband of Esther Mae Olson (nee Bugg), of Cinema, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Elmer Oliver Olson
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Elmer Olson off to war. -
Grave Marker
Elmer's headstone at Ancona war cemetery - Ancona, Italy.
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Private Elmer Oliver Olson
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Oliver Olson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 408 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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