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Military service
Service number:
1262026
Age:
21
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Garrison Artillery
Division:
6th Siege Bty. 2nd Bde.
Birth:
March 7, 1897
Kensington, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
May 3, 1916
Saint John, New Brunswick
Death:
October 5, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
LXVII. H. 28.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davison, of Malpeque, Prince Edward Island. A student in Theology at Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Gunner William Earle Davison
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Malpeque War Memorial
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Inscription
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 1133 of 1140. -
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Gunner William Earle Davison
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Earle Davison
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Earle Davison
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Earle Davison
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 395 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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