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Military service
Service number:
722230
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
August 23, 1884
Enlistment:
March 27, 1916
Death:
August 16, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. C. 78.
Additional information
Husband of Mrs. J. Olson, of Gimli, Manitoba. Son of Gottskalk Sigfússon Olson and Hólmfríður Jónasdóttir. Husband of Jónína (Jóninna) Hrólfsdóttir and the father of two children, Snorri Christian and Ingolfur Kristjan Olson.
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Newspaper clipping
From the book "Minningarrit íslenzkra hermanna 1914-1918" which tells the stories of the Canadian Icelandic soldiers of WW1. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the book "Minningarrit íslenzkra hermanna 1914-1918" which tells the stories of the Canadian Icelandic soldiers of WW1. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
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Private Peter Olson
Digital gallery of
Private Peter Olson
Digital gallery of
Private Peter Olson
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Commemorated on:
Page 480 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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