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Son of the late Rev. Harcourt Powell, of Wollaston Vicarage, Wellingborough, Northants, and Cecile H. Powell, Coventry, England.
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Vernon's mother, Sarah was in a family of six 1.)Margaret 2.) John 3.) Samuel 4.)Sarah 5.) Ezekiel 6.)Elizabeth .Sarah being his mother . I descend from Samuel. It is good to have him placed on the family chart where he belongs
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From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Major Powell, former teacher and house master at Appleby School, now Appleby College, shown "somewhere in France". A boarding house is named in his honour at the College. Photo from the Appleby College Archives.
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The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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Major Vernon Harcourt De Butts Powell
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Vernon's mother, Sarah was in a family of six 1.)Margaret 2.) John 3.) Samuel 4.)Sarah 5.) Ezekiel 6.)Elizabeth .Sarah being his mother . I descend from Samuel. It is good to have him placed on the family chart where he belongs
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From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Major Powell, former teacher and house master at Appleby School, now Appleby College, shown "somewhere in France". A boarding house is named in his honour at the College. Photo from the Appleby College Archives.
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The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 487 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LITTLE SHELFORD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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