Military service
Service number:
54356
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
September 22, 1896
Death:
October 13, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. I. 4.
Additional information
Brother of Private William Nelson, who died during service with the Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Nelson
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clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Brother of Nelson, William Service No. 54340. Killed in the same day and both served in the 18th Battalion. Elizabeth Nelson mother. "Killed in Action" Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press November 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Nelson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 30 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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