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Military service
Service number:
282892
Age:
19
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Railway Troops
Division:
12th Bn.
Birth:
September 12, 1898
Enlistment:
Nova Scotia
Death:
April 24, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
C. 9.
Additional information
Son of D. Morse Balcom and Hattie A. Balcom, of Lawrencetown, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia.
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ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
The town of Frevent is 9.5 kilometres south of St Pol and 16 kilometres south-east of Hesdin. ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY and EXTENSION is on the eastern side of the town on the south side of the secondary road to Sericourt.
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