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Captain Percival Molson

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Military Cross (MC)

Military service

Age: 36
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth: August 14, 1880 Cacouna
Enlistment: April 26, 1915
Death: July 5, 1917

Burial/memorial information

VILLERS STATION CEMETERY
Grave reference: VIII. E. I.
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Son of John Thomas Molson and Jane (Jennie) Baker (nee Butler) Molson, of Montreal, Quebec.

In June of 1916, he was badly wounded in the Battle of Mount Sorrel at Sanctuary Wood near Hoge, West Flanders in Belgium. After recovering from his wounds, he returned to the front lines and on July 5, 1917, while with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the outskirts of Avion, Pas-de-Calais near Vimy Ridge in France, Captain Percival Molson was killed by a direct hit from a German howitzer.

In Percival Molson's will he left $75,000 to McGill University to help pay most of the costs for the construction of the stadium. Although it was officially dedicated as McGill Graduates' Stadium at an intercollegiate track meet on Oct. 22, 1915, the Board of Governors of the university renamed the facility Percival Molson Memorial Stadium on October 25, 1919, in honour of this fallen hero.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 295 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS STATION CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.

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