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Edgar Wheaton Payson

In memory of:

Sergeant Edgar Wheaton Payson

May 11, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

733935

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)

Division:

25th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

March 11, 1895

Son of Arthur Collins Payson and Sadie E. Payson, of Westport, Nova Scotia.

Commemorated on Page 307 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

XVIII. M. II.

Location:

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Halifax Evening Mail May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Halifax Evening Mail May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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