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Military service
Service number:
425525
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
January 25, 1892
Bevervale, Illinois
Enlistment:
October 1, 1915
Camp Hughes, Manitoba
Death:
August 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B. 3.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Diana Besse of Eli, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Edward Edwin Besse
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bernard to Binyon. Mircoform Sequence 9; Volume Number 31829_B016719; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 153 Page 203 of 652 -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Edwin Besse
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Edwin Besse
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Edwin Besse
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 368 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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