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Sergeant Walter Dalziel

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Military service

Service number: 79230
Age: 26
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 31st Battalion
Birth: October 7, 1889
Enlistment: Calgary, Alberta
Death: June 6, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Walter and Emma Annie Dalziel, of Grand Parade, Brighton, England.
Additional citations

Distinguished Conduct Medal (London Gazette No. 29684 dated 27-July-1916) "For conspicuous gallantry. When his two officers were wounded he took charge of a bombing party, advanced under heavy fire to seize a point on which the enemy were advancing, and when he met them forced them to retire. He then held his position all night until relieved."

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 74 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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