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Military service
Service number:
645865
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
1st Canadian Gen. Hosp.
Birth:
March 25, 1882
Enlistment:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
May 19, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
LXVI. D. 4.
Additional information
Son of Richard and Susan Blatchford, of Exeter, Devon, England; husband of E. S. Blatchford, of 734, 19th Avenue East, Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Circumstances of Death
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Blampie to Booth; Mircoform Sequence 11; Volume Number 131829_B016720; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 155 Page 101 of 762. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver World newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George Blatchford
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Private George Blatchford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
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