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Military service
Service number:
129939
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
72nd Bn.
Birth:
May 9, 1897
Death:
November 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Richard Drew
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 911 of 1076. He was buried behind the parados at Desire Trench, the Somme. Subsequently, his grave could not be found and his sacrifice is commemorated on the VIMY MEMORIAL. -
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. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of December 14, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist59y316uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Richard Drew
"Portrait by Parisian Studio, Vancouver, B.C."
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Drew
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Drew
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Drew
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Drew
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Drew
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 80 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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