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Moses Tranter

In memory of:

Lance Corporal Moses Tranter

August 17, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

139196

Age:

26

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

Division:

75th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

November 29, 1890

Son of Moses and Elizabeth Tranter, of 63, Campbell Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Private Richard Tranter, who died on September 3, 1918, while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment).

Commemorated on Page 340 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

LIEVIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

II. D. 1.

Location:

Lievin is a small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3.5 kilometres west of Lens. The Communal Cemetery is on the south-west side of the town on the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Article about the death of Lance Corporal Moses Tranter's brother Richard.
  • Press Clipping
  • Newspaper Clipping (3)

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