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Military service
Service number:
433205
Age:
21
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
49th Bn.
Birth:
October 27, 1894
Ridgetown, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 11, 1915
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
October 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 17.
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Gordon Grover Guild, born in Ridgetown, ON 1893 Oct 27, raised in Alberta, joined 101st Edmonton in 1913, joined war in 1915 May 11, sailed from Montreal 1915 Nov 20, sustained shrapnel wound below the shoulder blades in France 1915 Mar 22, returned to duty after 7 weeks, wounded again on Sep 15, returned in early Oct to die in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, quickly buried nearby, reburied early 1920 in the Regina Trench Cemetery -
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From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin c1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal Gordon Guild
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Corporal Gordon Guild
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Commemorated on:
Page 96 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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