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Military service
Service number:
781706
Age:
19
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
46th Bn.
Birth:
March 4, 1897
Gravenhurst, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 5, 1916
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Death:
February 19, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Myers of Cananae, Saskatchewan. He was single and employed as a teacher.
Cousin of Trooper Edward Myers, who died while serving with the Three Rivers Regiment.
Digital gallery of Corporal Alfred Cromwell Myers
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Inscription
Corporal Myers scribing his name on the wall in the Bouzincourt Tunnels, near Albert on the Somme. -
Photo of Alfred Cromwell Myers
Youngest son of Thomas W. Myers and Eliza (Maharg) Myers. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Circumstances of death
From Gravenhurst Archives.
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alfred Cromwell Myers
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alfred Cromwell Myers
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alfred Cromwell Myers
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alfred Cromwell Myers
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alfred Cromwell Myers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 300 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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