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Military service
Age:
33
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
Toledo, Ohio
Death:
July 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 8.
Additional information
Son of the Rev. Dr. Frederic B. Du Val and Corinne Keorfatt his wife; husband of Stella Mary Du Val, of Winnipeg. Superintendent of Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Lieutenant Du Val was tragically killed by friendly fire while in the process of returning from a patrol. His "Circumstance of Death" file records the event. -
Document
Lieutenant Du Val is buried in Plot 3 Row A Grave 8 of the Bellacourt Military Cemetery, Riviere. This is recorded on the GRRF (Graves Registration Report Form) from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of July 10, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y184uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Free Press Prairie Farmer c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Edward William Du Val
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Lieutenant Edward William Du Val
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edward William Du Val
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Lieutenant Edward William Du Val
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edward William Du Val
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 402 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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