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Military service
Age:
34
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
September 18, 1884
Madoc, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 23, 1915
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
September 29, 1918
Near Bourlon Village, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 1.
Additional information
Son of Peter and Margaret (nee Armstrong) Van Kleeck. Spouse of Ruth Clark. Brother of Dr. Peter Van Kleeck of Armstrong, British Columbia, Jenny, Annie, Martha and Margaret. His nephew, Flight Lieutenant Bruce Van Kleeck, 69 (R.A.F.) Squadron lost his life on 11 October 1944.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Major Stuart Bruce Van Kleeck
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Gravestone for Stuart B. VanKleeck
Major VanKleeck's headstone, Bourlon Wood Cemetery, France. -
Osgoode Hall War Memorial
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Photo of Stuart Bruce Van Kleeck
Major Stuart Bruce Van Kleeck (Courtesy of 'So Far From Home, Armstrong's Fallen of the Great War', Leonard J. Gamble, Author) -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
Digital gallery of
Major Stuart Bruce Van Kleeck
Digital gallery of
Major Stuart Bruce Van Kleeck
Digital gallery of
Major Stuart Bruce Van Kleeck
Digital gallery of
Major Stuart Bruce Van Kleeck
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 516 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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