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Military service
Service number:
422321
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
June 26, 1889
Strathtay, Perthshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
March 19, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Alexander Robertson
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Photo of ALEXANDER ROBERTSON
Alexander Robertson was my Grandfather's twin brother and emigrated to Canada prior to the First World War from Strathtay, Scotland. The picture was sent home to his mother and passed on to me through the family. -
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)
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Robertson
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Robertson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 317 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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