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Military service
Service number:
733070
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
25th Bn.
Birth:
December 26, 1895
Moose Brook, Hants County, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
December 1, 1915
Windsor, Nova Scotia
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy, France
Burial/memorial information
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Son of John Lingard of Moose Brook, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private Anderson Lingard
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Mourning Mother
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Vimy Memorial
August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Anderson Lingard
Photo courtesy of West Hants Historical Society
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Private Anderson Lingard
Digital gallery of
Private Anderson Lingard
Digital gallery of
Private Anderson Lingard
Digital gallery of
Private Anderson Lingard
Digital gallery of
Private Anderson Lingard
Digital gallery of
Private Anderson Lingard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 275 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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