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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
814
Age:
30
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Battalion
Birth:
March 1, 1886
St James, Manitoba
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Wingham, Manitoba
Death:
July 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Sarah (nee Bredin) Acheson of St. James, Manitoba.
Additional citations
(London Gazette No. 29953, 19-Feb-1917) "For general good service and devotion to duty since the battalion came to France." 1914-15 Star.
Digital gallery of Lance Sergeant Weir Henry Acheson
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In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Weir Henry Acheson
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant Weir Henry Acheson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 45 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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