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Military service
Service number:
817698
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 27, 1897
Woodstock, New Brunswick
Death:
July 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 13.
Additional information
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Private Melvin Alexander Robinson
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Photo of Melvin Robinson
Source: Portraits of 28 Woodstock New Brunswick men who died during the first World War were published in the "All Woodstock Number" of the August 1922 issue of "The Busy East of Canada" (Vol. 13, No. 1). This section was captioned: "Woodstock Boys, Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Great War". Retouching: M. I. Pirie, 2011. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Melvin Alexander Robinson
Digital gallery of
Private Melvin Alexander Robinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 318 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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