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Military service
Service number:
58104
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
January 23, 1887
Death:
April 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. C. 39.
Additional information
Son of Samuel Wilson and Eliza Kennedy Wilson, of Main St., Cullybackey, Co. Antrim, Ireland.
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WILSON, Robert, 58104, Private, 20th Canadian Infantry Regiment, died on the 5th April 1916. He was aged 35 and the son of Samuel and Eliza Kennedy Wilson, Main Street, Cullybackey. He had lived at 537, Logan Avenue, Toronto, Canada. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium and commemorated in the Cuningham Memorial Presbyterian Church, Cullybackey. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Robert Wilson
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Private Robert Wilson
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Private Robert Wilson
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Private Robert Wilson
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Commemorated on:
Page 184 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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