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Private ALVIN SMITH WILSON

Service Number: 787169
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

75th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 April 1917

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. I. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Dr. S. C. Wilson and the late Ethel Matilda Smith, his wife of Perth, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription BORN IN PERTH ONT. 3RD OCT. 1898 WOUNDED AT VIMY RIDGE AGED 18 YRS.
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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