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Private JAMES HARRIS BEARS

Service Number: 464291
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

14th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

X. E. 18.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John Henry Bears, of Hope, British Columbia; husband of Mary Bears.
  • Personal Inscription LIFE TRIUMPHANT "BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE"
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Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1968
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