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Military service
Service number:
1257549
Age:
25
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Garrison Artillery
Division:
9th Siege Bty.
Birth:
September 24, 1891
Colwich, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
July 19, 1916
Nova Scotia
Death:
May 13, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. D. 18.
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Son of Annie Comfort Smith (formerly Stynes), of Hydes Lea, Stafford, England, and Robert G. Smith (Stepfather).
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Commemorated on:
Page 334 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIEVIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Lievin is a small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3.5 kilometres west of Lens. The Communal Cemetery is on the south-west side of the town on the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle.
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