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Military service
Service number:
412978
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn.
Birth:
May 26, 1896
Death:
October 27, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 37.
Digital gallery of Private Nelson Fortier
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Grave Marker
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Wartime diary
Private Nelson Fortier was the first man of the 13th Canadian Infantry Battalion to be killed in action after the move to Belgium for the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) in October 1917. Matching his date of death to the war diary tells us that he was the man that was killed by a bomb dropped from an enemy aeroplane while doing road work near Spree Farm (Trench Map 28.c.18.c), just south of St. Julien. -
Circumstances of death registers
Circumstance of Death record from Private Nelson Fortier.
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Private Nelson Fortier
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Fortier
Digital gallery of
Private Nelson Fortier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 238 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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