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Military service
Service number:
300232
Age:
34
Rank:
Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
2nd Div. Ammunition Col.
Birth:
December 12, 1882
Death:
May 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. J. 5.
Additional information
Son of Edward and Anne Jane Summers, of Harpurhey, Manchester, England; husband of Edith Jane Summers, of Ottawa.
Digital gallery of Bombardier Albert Summers
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Photo of Albert Summers
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Memorial Cross
His Memorial Cross, as given to his sister Eleanor living in Queensland. -
Inscription
Reverse of his Memorial Cross -
Grave Marker
He was buried in 1917 in Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mt St Eloy, France. A note on the back of the photo "The cross was made by his own men, and the (name)plate is brass" -
Photo of Albert Summers
Albert Summers, Died 31st May 1917. -
Letter
Letter to his wife from the Military, confirming the dispatch to his sister in Australia, of his Memorial Cross.
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Albert Summers
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Albert Summers
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Albert Summers
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Albert Summers
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Albert Summers
Digital gallery of
Bombardier Albert Summers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 335 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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