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Gunner Vernon Samuel Dickinson

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Military service

Service number: 348804
Age: 20
Rank: Gunner
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 3rd Bde.
Birth: July 3, 1897 Port Hope, Ontario
Enlistment: February 22, 1916 Ontario
Death: April 27, 1918 Étaples, France

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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: XXXII. G. I.
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Son of Samuel S. and Margaret J. Dickinson, of Port Hope, Ontario. Private Dickinson was a natural born mechanic and could make anything. He constructed a wireless telegraphic outfit at his home, making the greater part of it himself, from which messages could be plainly heard from Toronto. He was compelled to take the outfit down when war was declared.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 397 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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