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Lance Corporal Archibald McNiven

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Military service

Service number: 413065
Age: 36
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 20th Bn.
Birth: April 17, 1880
Death: October 5, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. F. 32.
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Son of Archibald and Mary McNiven, of Renton, Scotland; husband of Elizabeth McNiven, of 189, Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 130 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Contay is a village in the Department of the Somme on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY lies on the left (north east) side of the road to Franvillers. There are no access problems. There is a CWGC road sign next to the church and square of the village and next to the D23, Franvillers - Corbie, sign. The distance from the CWGC sign to the Cemetery is approximately 650 metres.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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