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Military service
Age:
42
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
November 14, 1874
Harrington, Oxford Co., Ontario
Enlistment:
May 5, 1916
Ontario
Death:
August 18, 1917
Lens, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 38.
Additional information
Husband of Mary Edith Wright, of St Marys, Ontario. Graduate of Toronto University and Principal of St Marys Collegiate.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.
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