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Edgerton Dolmage Neelands

In memory of:

Private Edgerton Dolmage Neelands

September 23, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

4847

Age:

35

Force:

Army

Unit:

Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery

Division:

4th Canadian Division Machine Gun Coy.

Citation(s):

British War Medal and Victory Medal

Additional Information


Born:

November 3, 1882
Sewell, Manitoba

Enlistment:

April 17, 1916
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Son of Catherine Matilda Neelands, of Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba, and Robert A. Neelands; husband of Rhona Mary Neelands, of Victoria, British Columbia.

Commemorated on Page 477 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY
Manitoba, Canada

Grave Reference:

Mil. 123.

Location:

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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