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Military service
Service number:
466663
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
42nd Bn.
Birth:
July 14, 1897
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
November 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. B. 5.
Digital gallery of Private Benjamin Brigden
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Brabant to Britton. Mircoform Sequence 13; Volume Number 131829_B016722; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 157 Page 691 of 906 -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Papers (Reverse)
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Diary
Bernard Robert Jones, Thomas Mills, Joseph Andrew Daigle, and Benjamin Brigden were killed in action at Mons on November 10, 1918. The War Diary of the 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion for November 12, 1918, describes the circumstances of their deaths and their funeral. <P> Source: War Diary 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion. War Diaries of the First World War. Library and Archives Canada.
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Brigden
Digital gallery of
Private Benjamin Brigden
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 374 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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