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Albert Simpson Ashton

In memory of:

Gunner Albert Simpson Ashton

September 12, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

89856

Age:

29

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Field Artillery

Division:

5th Bde.

Additional Information

Born:

March 7, 1889

Son of Mr. and Mrs Joseph Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne; husband of Ada Ashton, of 3, 9th Avenue, Lachine, Quebec, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 361 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

III. E. 14.

Location:

TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY is situated on the northern outskirts of Boulogne. From Calais follow the A16 to Boulogne and come off at Junction 3 and follow the D96E for Wimereux Sud. Continue on this road for approximately 1 kilometre when the TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY will be found on the left hand side of the road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Document– Mention of the death of Albert Simpson Ashton recorded in the parish registers of the Protestant church at Beauharnois and Châteauguay, Québec. The text reads: "Albert Simpson Ashton, gunner of the twenty-third howitzer battery of the Canadian artillery, born at Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England on the seventh of March 1884, married Ada Barstow at St. Luke's Church, Dukinfield [Lancashire], on the twelfth of February 1907, was an iron moulder by trade, died of gas pneumonia in the fifty-fifth general hospital Boulogne, France, on the 12th of September, 1918 after more than three years' military service overseas. He was a communicant of this parish. Sydenham Lindsey, parish priest"

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    Document – Mention of the death of Albert Simpson Ashton recorded in the parish registers of the Protestant church at Beauharnois and Châteauguay, Québec. The text reads: "Albert Simpson Ashton, gunner of the twenty-third howitzer battery of the Canadian artillery, born at Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England on the seventh of March 1884, married Ada Barstow at St. Luke's Church, Dukinfield [Lancashire], on the twelfth of February 1907, was an iron moulder by trade, died of gas pneumonia in the fifty-fifth general hospital Boulogne, France, on the 12th of September, 1918 after more than three years' military service overseas. He was a communicant of this parish. Sydenham Lindsey, parish priest"
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