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Captain Endre Johannes Cleven

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Military service

Age: 42
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 197th Bn.
Birth: May 8, 1874 Skudenes, Norway
Enlistment: Manitoba
Death: July 3, 1916 Portage la Prairie, Manitoba

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WINNIPEG (ELMWOOD) CEMETERY
Grave reference: L.338. S.13.
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Son of Johannes Johannesen Cleven and Tugeborg Johannesen Cleven, of Skudenes, Norway; husband of Margit Cleven and father of Lillian, Endre, Harald, Alfred and Odvar of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Captain Cleven was commissioned by the Canadian Government to be in charge of Canada's Scandinavian settlement program. At the outbreak of the First World War, Cleven, ranked Captain, was appointed as the leader of three Norwegian-Canadians who were intent on organizing the 197th Battalion ("The Vikings of Canada") of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 68 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WINNIPEG (ELMWOOD) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

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