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Son of Robert and Margaret Black; husband of Mary Black, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Major Robert John Black
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Major Robert John Black
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 395 of 734
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Major Robert John Black
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.
Digital gallery of
Major Robert John Black
Detail of statue and names listed on the War Memorial for Fernie and District, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of
Major Robert John Black
Digital gallery of
Major Robert John Black
From the Daily Colonist of April 20, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y113uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 395 of 734
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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.
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Detail of statue and names listed on the War Memorial for Fernie and District, British Columbia.
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From the Daily Colonist of April 20, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y113uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
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Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Barlin is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Bethune on the D188, between the Bethune-Arras and Bethune-St. Pol roads, about 6.5 kilometres south-east of Bruay. The BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSION lie to the north of the village on the D171 road to Houchin.
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