Military service
Service number:
709595
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
April 12, 1897
Maple Glen, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
November 4, 1915
Sussex, New Brunswick
Death:
October 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sobey, of Maple Glen, New Brunswick
Digital gallery of Private Charles Douglas Sobey
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Photo of Charles Douglas Sobey
Private Charles Douglas Sobey<br> Caption on back of picture reads: 1917 - Aged 20<br> We can only assume this photograph was taken shortly before his death.<br> "We will Remember Him" -
Inscription
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Douglas Sobey
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Douglas Sobey
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Douglas Sobey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 329 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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