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Shoeing Smith Claude Elmer Orton

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Military service

Service number: 189466
Age: 31
Rank: Shoeing Smith
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery
Division: 5th Bde
Birth: February 23, 1887
Death: August 10, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: B. II.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 480 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France

Vrely is a village 32 kilometres East of Amiens, immediately South of Rosieres-en-Santerre. The Communal Cemetery Extension adjoins the rear of the Communal Cemetery which is West of the village on the road to Caix.

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