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Military service
Service number:
435550
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
49th Bn.
Birth:
July 3, 1896
Hexham, Northumberland, England
Enlistment:
April 28, 1915
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
October 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 22.
Additional information
Son of Amos and Elizabeth Dent, of Calgary, Alberta. Brother of Melva.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private Melvin Wallace Pearson Dent
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Newspaper clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
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 821 of 1036.
Digital gallery of
Private Melvin Wallace Pearson Dent
Digital gallery of
Private Melvin Wallace Pearson Dent
Digital gallery of
Private Melvin Wallace Pearson Dent
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 77 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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