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Military service
Age:
40
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
39th Bty.
Birth:
January 7, 1877
Westville, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
December 1, 1915
Lethbridge, Alberta
Death:
June 24, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. L. 30.
Additional information
Son of William and Jane Stafford (nee Gibb), of Westville, Nova Scotia. Husband of Mary D. MacIntyre Stafford, of Lethbridge, Alberta.
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Major Alexander Boswell Stafford in uniform. -
Family Memorial
Family Memorial Headstone at Mountain View Cemetery - Lethbridge, Alberta (with his wife & two daughters) Inscription MAJOR A.B. STAFFORD 39th BATTERY C.F.A. VIMY, FRANCE JUNE 24, 1917 MARY DONALDA STAFFORD 1869 - 1953 DOROTHY DONALDA STAFFORD 1901 - 1963 STAFFORD [Plaque] MARGARET ISABEL DEAN 1906 - 1998
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Major Alexander Boswell Stafford
Digital gallery of
Major Alexander Boswell Stafford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 331 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.
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