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Bombardier JOHN ERNEST NELSON

Service Number: 86451
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Field Artillery

7th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY, ALBERT

I. C. 17.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Ernest Howard Nelson and Sarah Jane Nelson, of Carberry, Manitoba.
  • Personal Inscription WHAT CAN HEAVEN HOLD DEARER THAN A LIFE IN HONOR SPENT
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Buried or commemorated at

BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY, ALBERT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 410
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