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Wilfred Acey Nickerson

In memory of:

Private Wilfred Acey Nickerson

June 4, 1919

Military Service

Service Number:

3181761

Age:

21

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Division:

War Graves Depot

Additional Information

Born:

December 8, 1897
Canso, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

April 26, 1917
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Son of Reuben and Sara Nickerson of Hazel Hill, Guysbourough County, Nova Scotia.

Commemorated on Page 540 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

I. F. 20.

Location:

Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Circumstances of Death Registers– I noticed while at this site at Bois Carre looking for 16th Bn. that this poor fellow was in a Canadian War Graves Detachment clearing the battlefield and he opened a nose cap of a shell he found on the ground.

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    Circumstances of Death Registers
    Circumstances of Death Registers – I noticed while at this site at Bois Carre looking for 16th Bn. that this poor fellow was in a Canadian War Graves Detachment clearing the battlefield and he opened a nose cap of a shell he found on the ground.
  • Grave Marker– The grave marker at the Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013)

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    Grave Marker
    Grave Marker – The grave marker at the Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013)
  • Bois Carre British Cemetery– The Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial.(John & Anne Stephens 2013)

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    Bois Carre British Cemetery
    Bois Carre British Cemetery – The Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial.(John & Anne Stephens 2013)

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