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Military service
Service number:
M/50010
Age:
73
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
# 13 Company
Birth:
August 27, 1870
Matvin, Northumberland, England
Enlistment:
September 14, 1940
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
October 13, 1943
Calgary, Alberta
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Lot 121. Block 8. Sec. G.
Additional information
Son of Amos and Mary Dent of Allendale, Northumberland, England. Brother of George, Nichols and Margaret. Husband of Elizabeth Ann Dent of Calgary, Alberta and father of Melva Leslie Tubman and Private Melvin Wallace Pearson Dent, 49th Battalion, killed in action 9 October 1916.
Private Dent also enlisted for service in the First World War. He was discharged due to being medically unfit.
Additional citations
War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
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Private Amos Dent
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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CALGARY (BURNSLAND) CEMETERY Alberta, Canada
Calgary, in the south-western part of Alberta, is on both the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway, No2, 304 kilometres south of Edmonton.
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