Military service
Service number:
429565
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
October 6, 1893
Melbourne, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
March 25, 1915
New Westminster, British Columbia
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 35.
Memorial:
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Additional information
Son of Hugh and Mary Lupton of Kilburn, London, England. English:
Digitized service file.
French:
Dossier de service numérisé.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Mervyn Mansell Lupton
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Photo of Mervyn Lupton
From Volume 1 of Letters From The Front published by The Canadian Bank of Commerce -
Photo of Mervyn Lupton
In memory of the employees from the Canadian Bank Of Commerce (CIBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Arras Road Cemetery located outside Roclincourt, about 5 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Cemetery
The Arras Road Cemetery, located at Roclincourt, about 5 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial in France. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 13, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y133uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Mervyn Mansell Lupton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Mervyn Mansell Lupton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Mervyn Mansell Lupton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Mervyn Mansell Lupton
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Mervyn Mansell Lupton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 277 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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