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Military service
Service number:
16608
Age:
27
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
February 14, 1888
Tokyo, Japan
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIII. B. 5.
Additional information
Husband of Olive Odlum of Lodi, California.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory medal
Digital gallery of Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
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War Diary
Courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England Extract from war diary report on the 1915 gas attack written by Major Victor Wentworth Odlum, brother of Cpl Joseph Wellesley Odlum, 7th Battalion, 3rd Bde, who was killed 24.4.15. In it, Maj. Odlum mentions his brother being "blown to pieces by a shell". -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Mark Banning, England. -
Entrance
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Memorial
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 12, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y131uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province April 1915........Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province April 1915........Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
Digital gallery of
Corporal Joseph Wellesley Odlum
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 31 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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