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Gunner DAVID GORDON ALTON

Service Number: 84101
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Field Artillery

6th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 31 October 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. C. 21.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas B. and Agnes Alton, of 22, Emerald St. North, Hamilton, Ontario. Enlisted in the 16th Howitzer Bty. 18th Nov., 1914, at Guelph, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription THERE IS A LINK DEATH CANNOT SEVER LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE LIVE FOREVER
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Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1968
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