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Military service
Service number:
464432
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
April 25, 1895
Death:
October 25, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXXVII. A. 10.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Katherine D. Davies, of Notch Hill, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Cecil Knowdell Davies
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Cemetery
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 761 of 1140. Private Cecil Knowdell Davies was buried near where he fell on Passchendaele Ridge, Abraham Heights. After the Armistice his body was exhumed and re-interred in TYNE COT CEMETERY. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Knowdell Davies
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Knowdell Davies
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Knowdell Davies
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Knowdell Davies
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Knowdell Davies
Digital gallery of
Private Cecil Knowdell Davies
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 225 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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