Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Gilbert Blank
In memory of:
Lance Corporal Gilbert Blank
November 11, 1916
Military Service
463601
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Army
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
47th Bn.
Additional Information
August 4, 1896
Victoria, British Columbia
August 21, 1915
Vernon, British Columbia
Commemorated on Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme, France
II. I. 40.
Miraumont is a village about 14.5 kilometres north-north-east of Albert and the Cemetery is some 3 kilometres south of the village on the east side of the road to Courcelette (D107). The ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY is signposted in the centre of Miraumont.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of December 2, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y306uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
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Photo of Gilbert Blank – Gilbert Blank, born 4 August 1896, Victoria British Columbia. Joined C.E.F. 31 July 1915, at which time both parents deceased: Paul Martin Louis Kastner Blank,(German) and Wilhelmina Addison Ballentine, (Scottish) Primary next of kin on Attestation Papers: step-mother, Mrs Agnes Blank, (German) -
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Photo of Gilbert Blank – Gilbert in England, circa 1916, before being shipped to France
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