Military service
Service number:
710017
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
26th Bn.
Birth:
December 10, 1895
Woodstock, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
January 12, 1916
Sussex, New Brunswick
Death:
October 7, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. F. 6.
Digital gallery of Private Rankin Wheary
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Grave Marker
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery Memorial Plaque
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery Memorial
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery Memorial
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery Memorial
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Photo of Rankin Wheary
Source: Portraits of 28 Woodstock New Brunswick men who died during the first World War were published in the "All Woodstock Number" of the August 1922 issue of "The Busy East of Canada" (Vol. 13, No. 1). This section was captioned: "Woodstock Boys, Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Great War". Retouching: M. I. Pirie, 2011. -
Bourlon Wood Cemetery
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery
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Bourlon Wood Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Private Rankin Wheary
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Private Rankin Wheary
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Private Rankin Wheary
Digital gallery of
Private Rankin Wheary
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Private Rankin Wheary
Digital gallery of
Private Rankin Wheary
Digital gallery of
Private Rankin Wheary
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Private Rankin Wheary
Digital gallery of
Private Rankin Wheary
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 521 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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