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Military service
Service number:
104331
Age:
21
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
February 13, 1896
Death:
August 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Francis and Mary Adeline Rainville Jordens, of St. Hubert Mission, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
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Biography
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Photo of Wilfred Jordens
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Inscription
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) -
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) -
Attestation paper
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Newspaper clipping
Whitewood Herald September 6, 1917 Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Canada -
Circumstances of death
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Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Jordens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 266 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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