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Military service
Service number:
83977
Age:
23
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
6th Bde.
Birth:
April 26, 1893
Death:
October 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 3.
Additional information
Son of James and Elizabeth Challicom, of England.
Digital gallery of Gunner Oliver Challicom
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Newspaper Clipping
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Grave Marker
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CATCHPOLE TO CHIGNELL. Microform Sequence 19; Volume Number 31829_B016728. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 233 of 958. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of OLIVER CHALLICOM
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Gunner Oliver Challicom
Digital gallery of
Gunner Oliver Challicom
Digital gallery of
Gunner Oliver Challicom
Digital gallery of
Gunner Oliver Challicom
Digital gallery of
Gunner Oliver Challicom
Digital gallery of
Gunner Oliver Challicom
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 65 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.
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