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Amos Dent

In memory of:

Private Amos Dent

October 13, 1943
Calgary, Alberta

Military Service

Service Number:

M/50010

Age:

73

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Division:

# 13 Company

Citation(s):

War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Additional Information

Born:

August 27, 1870
Matvin, Northumberland, England

Enlistment:

September 14, 1940
Calgary, Alberta

Son of Amos and Mary Dent of Allendale, Northumberland, England. Brother of George, Nichols and Margaret. Husband of Elizabeth Ann Dent of Calgary, Alberta and father of Melva Leslie Tubman and Private Melvin Wallace Pearson Dent, 49th Battalion, killed in action 9 October 1916. Private Dent also enlisted for service in the First World War. He was discharged due to being medically unfit.

Commemorated on Page 152 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

CALGARY (BURNSLAND) CEMETERY
Alberta, Canada

Grave Reference:

Lot 121. Block 8. Sec. G.

Location:

Calgary, in the south-western part of Alberta, is on both the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway, No2, 304 kilometres south of Edmonton.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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