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Military service
Service number:
703462
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
102nd Bn.
Birth:
April 23, 1886
Death:
March 17, 1919
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
45. 6. 16.
Additional information
Son of Moses McConnell, of Castle View, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and Mrs. M. McConnell.
Digital gallery of Private Moses McConnell
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Grave Marker
Grave of 703462 Pvt. Moses McConnell who served with the 102nd Battn. C.E.F. He was born at Castle view Kirkcudbright Scotland on April 23rd 1886. He enlisted into the C.E.F. at Vernon BC on Jan. 31st 1916, he listed prior military military service of 8 months in the Gallaway Vol. Rifles in Scotland, he litsted his occupation as "Shoemaker & Saddler" He was invalided back to Canada in 1917 due to illness. Moses died at Vancouver BC of the Spanish flu on March 17th 1919 at the age of 33. He was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC. -
Cross of Sacrifice
Memorial Cross in the section where 703462 Pvt. Moses McConnell was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC. -
Vancouver (Mountain View) Cemetery
Cemetery view of the section where 703462 Pvt. Moses McConnell was laid to rest in the Mountain View cemetery of Vancouver BC.
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Private Moses McConnell
Digital gallery of
Private Moses McConnell
Digital gallery of
Private Moses McConnell
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Commemorated on:
Page 538 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VANCOUVER (MOUNTAIN VIEW) CEMETERY British Columbia, Canada
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