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Military service
Service number:
642058
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
116TH Bn.
Enlistment:
Orillia, Ontario
Death:
August 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 64.
Digital gallery of Private Benjamin Thomson Cole
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CLEAL TO CONNOLLY. Microform Sequence 21; Volume Number 31829_B016730. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 649 of 1384. -
Cenotaph
Private Benjamin Thomson Cole is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cenotaph
Private Benjamin Thomson Cole is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Orillia Times, 22 Aug 1918
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Thomson Cole
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Thomson Cole
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Thomson Cole
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Thomson Cole
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 387 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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