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Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Bedfordshire Regiment
Division:
4th Bn.
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
April 4, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Becourt German Cemetery Memorial 1.
Additional information
Son of Dr. and Mrs. Primrose Wells, of Pinner Wood, Duncan, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant James Bowen Primrose Wells
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 24, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y144uvic/mode/1up?view=theater. Note that Lieutenant Wells' regimental number while serving with the C.E.F. was 77820. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 14, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y242uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant James Bowen Primrose Wells
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant James Bowen Primrose Wells
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant James Bowen Primrose Wells
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant James Bowen Primrose Wells
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant James Bowen Primrose Wells
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 604 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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