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Samuel Wilson Corbett

In memory of:

Private Samuel Wilson Corbett

April 23, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

527814

Age:

26

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Army Medical Corps

Division:

3rd Field Ambulance

Citation(s):

British War Medal, Victory Medal

Additional Information


Born:

October 6, 1891
Fermanagh, Ireland

Enlistment:

May 1, 1916
Toronto, Ontario

Son of Samuel Wilson and Lizzie Helena Corbett, of Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Brother of Mary Jane Corbett of Bray, Ireland.

Commemorated on Page 389 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

V. C. 21.

Location:

Roclincourt is a village a little to the east of the road from Arras to Lens. Take the N 17 from Arras until the junction of this road and the D 60 (first CWGC sign here). Travel along the D 60 into Roclincourt village, for approximately one kilometre, to a right turn (direction St Nicholas). Take this road for approximately 175 metres to a lane on the right. The ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY lies 100 metres away at the foot of this lane.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram May 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Newspaper Clipping– In honoured memory.

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