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Military service
Service number:
24820
Age:
30
Rank:
Lance Serjeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn.
Birth:
July 19, 1885
Enlistment:
Fernie, British Columbia
Death:
April 19, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. K. 6.
Additional information
Son of Peter and Jeanie McMillan Connell; husband of Ann McAllister Connell, of Mission Coast Home, Saltcoats, Ayrshire.
Digital gallery of Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
War Memorial, Fernie and District, British Columbia. Dedicated by Lord Byng on May 24th, 1922. Inscribed: ERECTED TO PERPETUATE OUR HONOURED DEAD AND THOSE WHO CARRIED ON IN THE GREAT WAR FROM FERNIE B.C. AND DISTRICT. -
Inscription
Detail of statue and names listed on the War Memorial for Fernie and District, British Columbia. -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant Robert Connell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 69 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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