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Robert Walter Warren

In memory of:

Private Robert Walter Warren

August 24, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

712234

Age:

18

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)

Division:

78th Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

March 13, 1897

Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Warren, of Clyde, Alberta. Native of Prince Edward Island.

Commemorated on Page 519 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

HILLSIDE CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

II. B. 10.

Location:

Le Quesnel is a village half-way between the towns of Roye and Boves and is just north of the main straight road from Noyon to Amiens. HILLSIDE CEMETERY is 3 kilometres north-east of the village on the north-west side of the road to Caix.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Attestation paper– bought this 1908 British halfpenny in Cape Town years back. Reason I got it is because it had numbers and dates stamped onto it. I was first told that it is almost impossible to get any meaning from "random numbers" on coins as it is not easy to put it into any context. After some research I found that they are not that random at all. These are regiment numbers of two Canadian brothers from WW1. 105 was the 105th Overseas Battalion. 712234 belonged to the younger brother Robert Walter Warren ( born 13/03/1897) and the other to his older brother, Wellington Pope Warren (born 22/03/1896). They were from Prince Edward Island and inlisted in 1915 and 1916. Wellington died on the 8 of August 1918, the first day of the Battle of Amiens. He is buried in the Toronto cemetery in Demuin, France. The younger brother also died in combat on the 24th and was laid to rest in the Hillside Cemetery near Somme, France. It still a mystery why their numbers ended up on this coin and how it found its way into a coin scratch patch in Cape Town.

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    Attestation paper
    Attestation paper – bought this 1908 British halfpenny in Cape Town years back. Reason I got it is because it had numbers and dates stamped onto it. I was first told that it is almost impossible to get any meaning from "random numbers" on coins as it is not easy to put it into any context. After some research I found that they are not that random at all. These are regiment numbers of two Canadian brothers from WW1. 105 was the 105th Overseas Battalion. 712234 belonged to the younger brother Robert Walter Warren ( born 13/03/1897) and the other to his older brother, Wellington Pope Warren (born 22/03/1896). They were from Prince Edward Island and inlisted in 1915 and 1916. Wellington died on the 8 of August 1918, the first day of the Battle of Amiens. He is buried in the Toronto cemetery in Demuin, France. The younger brother also died in combat on the 24th and was laid to rest in the Hillside Cemetery near Somme, France. It still a mystery why their numbers ended up on this coin and how it found its way into a coin scratch patch in Cape Town.

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