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Son of Capt. and Mrs. John Irving, of Victoria, British Columbia; husband of Evelyn Hay Irving, of The Esplanade, Quebec.
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Major William Alexander Irving
C.E.F. Death Certificate For Major William Alexander Irving 43rd Batty. 10 Brigade Canadian Field Artillery Killed in Action Oct.11th 1916. Certificate dated Feb. 19th 1919
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Letter sent to the mother of Major William Alexander Irving 43rd Batty. 10th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery who was killed in of Action Oct.11th 1916 to her home Victoria BC. About the C.E.F. Death Certificate she had asked for.
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Albert Communal Cemetery Extension (CWGC)
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Major William Alexander Irving
From the Daily Colonist of October 14, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y264uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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Major William Alexander Irving
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C.E.F. Death Certificate For Major William Alexander Irving 43rd Batty. 10 Brigade Canadian Field Artillery Killed in Action Oct.11th 1916. Certificate dated Feb. 19th 1919
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Letter sent to the mother of Major William Alexander Irving 43rd Batty. 10th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery who was killed in of Action Oct.11th 1916 to her home Victoria BC. About the C.E.F. Death Certificate she had asked for.
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Albert Communal Cemetery Extension (CWGC)
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From the Daily Colonist of October 14, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y264uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 108 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France
Albert is a town on the River Ancre in the Department of the Somme, 28 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION is on the south-east side of Albert and the junction of the roads to Fricourt and Meaulte, and the Extension is entirely enclosed by it.
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