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Military service
Service number:
22703
Age:
26
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 27, 1888
Enlistment:
August 29, 1914
Saint John, New Brunswick
Death:
May 4, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Henry and Alice Briggs, of Beulah. King's Co., New Brunswick; husband of Jennie P. Briggs, of Brockton, Mass., U.S.A.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal David Henry Briggs
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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 711 of 906
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Henry Briggs
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Henry Briggs
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Henry Briggs
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Henry Briggs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 6 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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