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Military service
Service number:
1257813
Age:
20
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Garrison Artillery
Division:
5th Siege Bty.
Birth:
January 26, 1897
Death:
October 24, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 4.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Armour McFarlane, of Rockville, Sussex, King's Co., New Brunswick, Canada.
Digital gallery of Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
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Photo of Walter Percy McFarlane
Walter Percy McFarlane. This is the only photo the family has of Percy. We do not know where it was taken. We believe it was before he was sent overseas. -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
War Diary
War Diary recording of W.P. McFarlane's fatal wounding Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Essay
Belle Isle Regional High School - 'Lest We Forget - Springfield, New Brunswick'<P> In the Spring of 2008, the Grade 11 Modern History students at Belle Isle Regional High School completed biographies for eighteen First World War soldiers. Their assignment was part of the ¿Lest We Forget¿ project initiated by Blake Seward, a history teacher, in Smiths Falls, Ontario.<P> The students researched individuals from Norton, New Brunswick who died while serving in the First World War. There are 44 names listed on the local cenotaph, Riverbank Memorial and it is their intention to continue this project until students have completed biographies on all the individuals listed. Their teacher, Stephen Wilson, then intends to research the soldiers from the Second World War. -
Essay
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Essay
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Keith Boswell, England -
Photo of Riverbend War Memorial
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Inscription
Riverbend War Memorial inscription -
Entrance
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
Digital gallery of
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 282 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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