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Military service
Service number:
412682
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
26th Bn.
Birth:
September 13, 1896
Picton, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 2, 1915
Picton, Ontario
Death:
June 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Frank and Phoebe Besonday.
Digital gallery of Private Harold Besonday
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bernard to Binyon. Mircoform Sequence 9; Volume Number 31829_B016719; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 153 Page 201 of 652 -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Harold Besonday
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Besonday
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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