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Corporal WILLIAM NELSON

Service Number: 625
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 11 December 1915

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE

Div. 19. M. 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Watson Nelson and Marie Nelson, of 11, Luxor Avenue, Harehills Rd., Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 2063
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