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Military service
Service number:
343939
Age:
22
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Garrison Artillery
Division:
6th Siege Bty.
Birth:
March 2, 1895
London, England
Enlistment:
November 18, 1916
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 91.
Additional information
Son of Samuel and Estelle M. Merrill, of Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A. He graduated in the Class of 1919, Havard College. He served under the name of Arthur Ashton STANLEY. There is a second commemorative record for him under that name on page 331 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Wainwright Merrill was the author of "A College Man in Khaki - Letters of an American in the British Artillery", published 1918 in New York. Too young to enlist and prior to American entry into the war, Wainwright Merrill signed up with the Canadians using the name "Arthur Stanley". His book includes his original line drawings, photos, and correspondence. Merrill was killed in action November 6th, 1917. The photograph shown in his book was taken in 1915. -
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Gunner Wainwright Merrill
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Gunner Wainwright Merrill
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Commemorated on:
Page 603 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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