Military service
Service number:
132350
Age:
21
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Artillery
Division:
12th Light T.M. Battery.
Birth:
November 17, 1895
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
September 6, 1915
Montreal, Québec
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Ada Helen Nelson, of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Corporal George Douglas Nelson
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Photo of George Nelson
Photo taken from "A Short History and Photographic Record of the 73rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Royal Highlanders of Canada" Page 33. 'C' Company. No. 11 Platoon. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Papers (Reverse)
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Corporal George Douglas Nelson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 300 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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