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Military service
Service number:
256053
Age:
23
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
2nd T.M. Bty.
Birth:
April 26, 1895
Enlistment:
Saskatchewan
Death:
August 17, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIA. A. 7.
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ball, of Lindsay, Ontario ;husband of Josephine M. Ball, of Sanatorium Ninette, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Gunner Melville Gordon Ball
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Gunner Melville Gordon Ball
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 363 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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