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Digital gallery of Major Alvin Ripley
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From the Calgary Herald. Submitted of the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Photo Glenbow Archives credit<P> Photo copyright: Glenbow Archives NA-2968-26 Reproduced with permission from the Glenbow Archives, website www.glenbow.org <P> Submitted by, Operation Picture Me
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Calgary Herald June 24, 1915.
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Photo of grave markers for (on left) Major A. Ripley and Lieut. Colonel Russel H. Britton who were killed when 5th Brigade Hdqtrs received a direct hit, killing them instantly.<P> Photo taken July 2008 by Wilf Schofield, England.
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Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 316 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Neuville-St Vaast is a village 6.5 kilometres north of Arras, a little east of the road from Bethune to Arras. LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the south-west of the village on the north-west side of the road to the village of Maroeuil.
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