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Military service
Service number:
184140
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th Bn.
Birth:
May 22, 1897
Pine Lake, Alberta
Enlistment:
January 3, 1915
Red Deer, Alberta
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
10.D.34.
Additional information
Brother of Gladys Alford of Red Deer, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Henry Alford
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Charlie's name was put on the Vimy Memorial before they realized he had a marked grave.
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Grave Marker
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of CHARLES HENRY ALFORD
Photo from Rob Porkka. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Henry Alford
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Henry Alford
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Henry Alford
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Henry Alford
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Henry Alford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 46 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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