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Military service
Service number:
688270
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 47th Bn.
Birth:
July 6, 1892
Death:
May 11, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
G. 17.
Additional information
Only son of George and Hannah Maria Schofield. Born at Heywood, Lancs, England.
Digital gallery of Private George Ernest Schofield
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Photo of George Ernest Schofield
From back of photo: "Pte G.E. Schofield, 688270, C Company, 172 Batt C.E.F. was transfered to the 47 Batt B.E.F., was wounded on May the 6th 1917 & died on the 11th in France, and is buried at Bruay, no of grave 843 in line g." -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George Ernest Schofield
Digital gallery of
Private George Ernest Schofield
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 322 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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