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Military service
Service number:
291100
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
44th Bn.
Birth:
October 23, 1891
Iceland
Death:
August 22, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. B. 12
Additional information
Son of Joel Gislason and his wife Kristbjorg, of Silver Bay, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Bjorn Gislason
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Newspaper clipping
From the book "Minningarrit íslenzkra hermanna 1914-1918" which tells the stories of the Canadian Icelandic soldiers of WW1. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the book "Minningarrit íslenzkra hermanna 1914-1918" which tells the stories of the Canadian Icelandic soldiers of WW1. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Bjorn Gislason
Digital gallery of
Private Bjorn Gislason
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 244 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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