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Military service
Service number:
826875
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
August 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. F. 19.
Additional information
Son of Mr. H. H. and Mrs. A. M. Spicer, of Duchess, Alberta.
Additional citations
Mentioned in Despatches.
Digital gallery of Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
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Photo of Wilfrid Robert Spicer
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Grave marker
Caix British Cemetery, 2018 -
Photo of Wilfrid Robert Spicer
Private W. R. Spicer, 1916 souvenir postcard -
Grave marker
G.R.U. Temporary Grave Marker, Caix British Cemetery circa 1920. Killed in Action on the first day of the Last Hundred Days of the Great War. At first, he was buried near the Village of Hangard, then relocated to Caix in 1920. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Chilliwack Progress. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Chilliwack Progress. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfrid Robert Spicer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 505 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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