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Military service
Service number:
129650
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
August 2, 1895
Death:
September 3, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 7.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. E. M. Shepherd, of 975, Park Rd., Vancouver, British Columbia.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 499 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURY MILL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D939). Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury. 300 metres after the Memorial the Cemetery is signposted to the left towards Dury village. 200 metres from the D939 the cemetery is signposted to the left. It is located in open fields, and is approached along an unsurfaced track about 500 metres long.
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