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Military service
Service number:
17298
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
January 17, 1895
Colchester, England
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Osmond William and Alice Maud (nee Studd) Geernaert, of Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Brother of Lance Corporal Osmond Glorieux, The Royal Canadian Regiment, died of wounds as a Prisoner of War on 9 October 1916.
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private Edward Douglas Geernaert
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Douglas Geernaert
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 15 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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