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Son of T. H. and Mary E. Davies, of Trail, British Columbia.
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Private Benjamin Davies
France 2007
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Private Benjamin Davies
From the Daily Colonist of September 15, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y240uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
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Private Benjamin Davies
From the Daily Colonist of September 16, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y241uvic#page/n0/mode/1up. Note that Ben Davies service number is 706151.
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Private Benjamin Davies
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 759 of 1140. Body not recovered for burial.
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Private Benjamin Davies
We found this photograph among some estate effects that were brought to us. As a commercial funding partner with a number of local museums, we try to place place information such as this picture within the public domain, rather than selling it into a private collection. Lest We Forget Benjamin Davies.
Andrew - Manager
Everything Old Canada Antiques & Vintage
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Davies
We found this photograph among some estate effects that were brought to us. As a commercial funding partner with a number of local museums, we try to place place information such as this picture within the public domain, rather than selling it into a private collection. Lest We Forget Benjamin Davies.
Andrew - Manager
Everything Old Canada Antiques & Vintage
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France 2007
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From the Daily Colonist of September 15, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y240uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
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From the Daily Colonist of September 16, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y241uvic#page/n0/mode/1up. Note that Ben Davies service number is 706151.
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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 759 of 1140. Body not recovered for burial.
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We found this photograph among some estate effects that were brought to us. As a commercial funding partner with a number of local museums, we try to place place information such as this picture within the public domain, rather than selling it into a private collection. Lest We Forget Benjamin Davies. Andrew - Manager Everything Old Canada Antiques & Vintage
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We found this photograph among some estate effects that were brought to us. As a commercial funding partner with a number of local museums, we try to place place information such as this picture within the public domain, rather than selling it into a private collection. Lest We Forget Benjamin Davies. Andrew - Manager Everything Old Canada Antiques & Vintage
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 225 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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