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Military service
Service number:
931630
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Death:
November 1, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 6.
Additional information
Son of Fredrick Walter and Margaret Penson, of Wynndel, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Entrance
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
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Creston War Memorial
War Memorial, Creston & District, British Columbia. Also included are names from men from nearby Erickson and Wynndel. The Cenotaph was unveiled on November 11th, 1922. There are 26 names inscribed on the granite memorial representing those local men who died during World War One. A stone panel was added at a later date to include 29 names of those who died during World War Two. Located at 137 11th Avenue North, in front of the local Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 29). In honoured memory. -
Creston War Memorial
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Creston War Memorial
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Newspaper clipping
Muskoka Herald 03-Jan-1918
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Fredrick Penson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 308 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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