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Lieutenant Edwin Austin Abbey

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth: September 22, 1888 Kilmacolm, Scotland
Enlistment: October 2, 1915 Ontario
Death: April 10, 1917 Vimy Ridge, France

Burial/memorial information

THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: IV. E. 9.
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Son of William Burling Abbey and Katharine Eleanor Abbey, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 189 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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THELUS MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Thelus is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, west of the N17 Arras-Lens main road and 6.5 kilometres north of Arras. Thelus Military Cemetery is approximately 300 metres west of the N17, located in the open country, about 50 metres north of Thelus village.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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