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Military service
Service number:
166191
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Pioneers
Division:
2nd Pioneer Battalion.
Birth:
May 25, 1882
Death:
April 27, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Norman Sells, of California, and the late Amy Addleine Stormes Sells.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Gilbert Sells
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Newspaper Clipping
Clipping from the Dutton Advance for 17 May 1917, page 1. -
War Diary
War Diary Entry of the 2nd Entrenching Battalion of April 28, 1917 reporting the death of Private Sells. He was killed by an enemy gas shell on April 27, 1917 while working at Thelus (south of Vimy Ridge). This image is from the on-line war diary held in Ottawa by Library and Archives Canada. -
Map
The location where Private Sells was working at Thelus (south of Vimy Ridge) on April 27, 1917 This image is from trench map of Lt. G. V. Laughton, M.C. who was in the same area at that time. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Gilbert Sells
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Gilbert Sells
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Gilbert Sells
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Gilbert Sells
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Gilbert Sells
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 323 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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