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Military service
Service number:
A/11113
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
December 8, 1893
Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
April 10, 1915
Montreal
Death:
June 4, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of George and Mary Jane Buxton of Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Charles Benjamin Buxton
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 853 of 926. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Charles Benjamin Buxton
Photo of Charles Benjamin Buxton – Photo submitted by On The War Memorial Trail research project
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Benjamin Buxton
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Benjamin Buxton
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Benjamin Buxton
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Benjamin Buxton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 62 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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