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Military service
Service number:
722005
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
September 18, 1896
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Robert and Mina Copeland, of McCreary, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Robert James Copeland
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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 729 of 818. Private Robert James Copeland was buried at a “Cemetery at Bully Grenay”. After the Armistice his grave could not be found during the concentration of war graves process -
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)
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Private Robert James Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private Robert James Copeland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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