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Lance Corporal Melville Avison Kirkland

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Military service

Service number: 895078
Age: 21
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 50th Bn.
Birth: November 21, 1896
Death: September 28, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. A. 23.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 442 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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RAILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Nord, France

Raillencourt is a village in the Department of the Nord, about 5 kilometres west of Cambrai on the main road to Arras, D939. The Communal Cemetery is located on the main road about 700 metres from the entrance to the village from the Arras side.

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