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Military service
Service number:
716196
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth:
November 5, 1891
Tuffs Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
May 20, 1916
Truro, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Christian and Agnes Selena (nee Wright) Nelson of Central North River, Nova Scotia. Brother of Hiram William Nelson, 52nd Battalion, lost in action 28 October 1917, Ida, Percy, Walter, Mary, Viola, Douglas, Ester, Bertha,
Eva and Effie.
Digital gallery of Private Rupert Peter Nelson
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Menin Gate
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of Hiram William Nelson
Hiram William Nelsen and his brother Rupert Peter Nelson died within three days of one another. This picture is of Hiram. Hiram was born 1896 and died October 28, 1917. Rupert was born 1891 and died October 31, 1917. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Rupert Peter Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Rupert Peter Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Rupert Peter Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Rupert Peter Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Rupert Peter Nelson
Digital gallery of
Private Rupert Peter Nelson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 300 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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