Military service
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Son of Edward J. Corkill, of Napanee, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
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Digital gallery of
Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 89 of 900. Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill was originally buried in the field near Martinpuich, 6 ½ miles East-North-East of Albert. After the Armistice his body was exhumed and re-interred in the newly created Adanac Military Cemetery.
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 89 of 900. Acting Bombardier Edward Fair Corkill was originally buried in the field near Martinpuich, 6 ½ miles East-North-East of Albert. After the Armistice his body was exhumed and re-interred in the newly created Adanac Military Cemetery.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Miraumont is a village about 14.5 kilometres north-north-east of Albert and the Cemetery is some 3 kilometres south of the village on the east side of the road to Courcelette (D107). The ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY is signposted in the centre of Miraumont.
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