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Military service
Service number:
115215
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
27th Bn.
Birth:
September 22, 1888
Shareshill, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Death:
April 10, 1917
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Son of William Thomas and Rose Ester Sayer.
Digital gallery of Private Norman Caswell Sayer
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Photo of Norman Sayer
Norman Sayer served in the First World War, starting with the 10th Canadian Mounted Rifles. His sister's handwriting is on the photograph. Contributed by his nephew, Lawrence J.S. Cross, a veteran of the Italian Campaign in the Second World War, 2nd field regiment, RCA. Mr. Cross' brother Stanley Norman Cross also served in Italy in the Second World War and was killed in action. -
Ring
My father found this ring going through his fathers' belongings, who was too young to have participated in the First World War. I visited Vimy on Rememberence Day and discovered the surname Sayer on the memorial. We do not know who the ring belonged to prior to it being in my father & grandfather's possession, but I suspect that it may have belonged to NC Sayer. I went through the entirety of Sayers that died in the First World War in Canada and NC Sayer was the only one to be commemorated on the Vimy Memorial. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Photo of the death records related to NC Sayer -
Inscription
Photo taken on 11/11/2017 of NC Sayer's commemoration on the Vimy Memorial in France
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Caswell Sayer
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Caswell Sayer
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Caswell Sayer
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Caswell Sayer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 322 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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