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Military service
Service number:
430671
Age:
21
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
27th Bn.
Birth:
December 24, 1895
Death:
April 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of John and Mary Jane Howe, of 3142, Irma St., Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson Howe
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Inscription
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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 19, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y138uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson Howe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson Howe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson Howe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson Howe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson Howe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson Howe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 259 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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