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Private EMERSON WALDO GATES

Service Number: 283138
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

85th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIHONS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY

425.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Silas L. and Mary E. Gates, of Port Williams, King's Co., Nova Scotia.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR OTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

LIHONS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 8
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