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Military service
Service number:
107083
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
January 4, 1890
Lumby, British Columbia
Enlistment:
December 9, 1914
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
June 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. B. 88.
Additional information
Son of Peter Bessette, and Virginia Martin.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private Clarence Joseph Bessette
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bernard to Binyon. Mircoform Sequence 9; Volume Number 31829_B016719; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 153 Page 205 of 652 -
Photo of Clarence Joseph Bessette
Used with permission of the Legion Branch #167 Lumby, BC and submitted by Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vernon News. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Joseph Bessette
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Joseph Bessette
Digital gallery of
Private Clarence Joseph Bessette
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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