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Military service
Service number:
442909
Age:
36
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
May 22, 1880
London, England
Enlistment:
June 10, 1915
Vernon Camp, British Columbia
Death:
September 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
6.E.3.
Additional information
Son of William and Grace Gillespie; husband of Louise Gwendoline Mutlow (nee Williams) Gillespie and father of William H. Gillespie of 'Iona', Woodland Grove, Weybridge, Surrey, England.
Digital gallery of Sergeant David Bryce Gillespie
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Sergeant David Bryce Gillespie
Digital gallery of
Sergeant David Bryce Gillespie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 91 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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