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Military service
Service number:
223472
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
85th Bn.
Enlistment:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
April 12, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Albert S. and Bessie I. Coolen, of Fox Point, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private Edgar Collingwood Coolen
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Memorial
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 435 of 818. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Collingwood Coolen
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Collingwood Coolen
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Collingwood Coolen
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Collingwood Coolen
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Collingwood Coolen
Digital gallery of
Private Edgar Collingwood Coolen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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