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Military service
Service number:
222097
Age:
20
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
85th Bn.
Birth:
May 2, 1897
Kentville, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
September 22, 1915
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Henry and Margaret Nelson of Halifax, Nova Scotia; husband of Rose Johnson (formerly Nelson), of Hudson, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Frank Albert Nelson
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Photo of Frank Nelson
Photo of Frank Nelson. He was a Sergeant in the 85th battalion. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of FRANK ALBERT NELSON
colorized version -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Frank Albert Nelson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Frank Albert Nelson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Frank Albert Nelson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Frank Albert Nelson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Frank Albert Nelson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Frank Albert Nelson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 300 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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