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Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
10th Bde.
Death:
October 11, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 33.
Additional information
Son of Capt. and Mrs. John Irving, of Victoria, British Columbia; husband of Evelyn Hay Irving, of The Esplanade, Quebec.
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Death Certificate
C.E.F. Death Certificate For Major William Alexander Irving 43rd Batty. 10 Brigade Canadian Field Artillery Killed in Action Oct.11th 1916. Certificate dated Feb. 19th 1919 -
Letter
Letter sent to the mother of Major William Alexander Irving 43rd Batty. 10th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery who was killed in of Action Oct.11th 1916 to her home Victoria BC. About the C.E.F. Death Certificate she had asked for. -
Grave Marker
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Cemetery
Albert Communal Cemetery Extension (CWGC) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 14, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y264uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
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Major William Alexander Irving
Digital gallery of
Major William Alexander Irving
Digital gallery of
Major William Alexander Irving
Digital gallery of
Major William Alexander Irving
Digital gallery of
Major William Alexander Irving
Digital gallery of
Major William Alexander Irving
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Major William Alexander Irving
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Commemorated on:
Page 108 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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