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Military service
Service number:
472944
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
72nd Bn.
Birth:
July 15, 1894
Death:
March 1, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private George Ede Dennis
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Photo of George Dennis
Private Dennis enlisted at Saskatoon on January 11, 1916. He sailed to England on the S.S. Empress of Britain on June 20, 1916 and arrived in England on June 28, 1916 and sent to Bramshott. He joined his unit (Seaforth Highlanders, 4th Division, 12th Brigade, 72nd Battalion)on December 16, 1916 after a stay in the hospital. He was reported missing in action on March 4, 1917 and presumed to have died on or about March 1, 1917. He was the son of Violet and Newman Dennis of Burgessville, Ontario. -
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) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 741 of 1036. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private George Ede Dennis
Digital gallery of
Private George Ede Dennis
Digital gallery of
Private George Ede Dennis
Digital gallery of
Private George Ede Dennis
Digital gallery of
Private George Ede Dennis
Digital gallery of
Private George Ede Dennis
Digital gallery of
Private George Ede Dennis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 227 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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