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Military service
Service number:
475438
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
April 27, 1878
Enlistment:
Montreal
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Charles Stephen and Catherine Brigden.
Digital gallery of Private Ernest Albert Brigden
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Brabant to Britton. Mircoform Sequence 13; Volume Number 131829_B016722; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 157 Page 693 of 906 -
Photo of Ernest Albert Brigden
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Family Photo
Photo shows (L to R): Ernest Albert Brigden (son), Martha Mabel Brigden (daughter), Charles Stephen Brigden (father),William George Brigden (son), Emma Brigden (daughter). Possibly taken on Charles' 80th or, more likely, his 85th birthday, 1908 or 1913. The photo was taken in Montreal. Charles Stephen Brigden is likely wearing the Crimean War Medal and Clasp for Sebastopol and a medal from the Turkish Government, also for service in the Crimean War. (Catherine Brigden, granddaughter of William, identified the people and the location and, also, provided the photograph.) -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Albert Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Albert Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Albert Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Albert Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Albert Brigden
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 58 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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