Language selection


Search veterans.gc.ca

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Melvin Alexander Robinson

In memory of:

Private Melvin Alexander Robinson

July 9, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

817698

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)

Additional Information


Born:

September 27, 1897
Woodstock, New Brunswick

Digitized service file.

Commemorated on Page 318 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

II. C. 13.

Location:

Barlin is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Bethune on the D188, between the Bethune-Arras and Bethune-St. Pol roads, about 6.5 kilometres south-east of Bruay. The BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSION lie to the north of the village on the D171 road to Houchin.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

Send us your images

  • Memorial– His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
  • Photo of Melvin Robinson– Source: Portraits of 28 Woodstock New Brunswick men who died during the first World War were published in the "All Woodstock Number" of the August 1922 issue of "The Busy East of Canada" (Vol. 13, No. 1).  This section was captioned:  "Woodstock Boys, Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Great War".  Retouching:  M. I. Pirie, 2011.

Learn more about the Canadian Virtual War Memorial

To learn more please visit our help page. If you have questions or comments regarding the information contained in this registry, email or call us. For inquiries regarding the names and information found in the RCMP Honour Roll, please email the RCMP.

Date modified: