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Sapper W S BOXER

Service Number: 429176
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Engineers

1st Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 12 December 1917

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SUCRERIE CEMETERY, ABLAIN-ST. NAZAIRE

II. C. 14.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin Sturdee Boxer and Mary Elizabeth Boxer; husband of Jennie Boxer, of 4737, Little St., Vancouver, British Columbia. Born at Dartmouth, England.
  • Personal Inscription LOVED & WERE LOVED & NOW YOU LIE IN FLANDERS FIELDS
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Buried or commemorated at

SUCRERIE CEMETERY, ABLAIN-ST. NAZAIRE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 384
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