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Lance Corporal George Fremont Neily

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1883-06-03
Place of birth: Middleton Nova Scotia Canada
Next of kin: Clara Belle Neily (Mother) Middleton Nova Scotia
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Police
Occupation (normalized): Policeman and other Maintainers of Law and Order (except Military)
Address: 1340 Hastings St. E. Vancouver BC
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death: 1917-04-09
Cause of death: Killed in action

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 645977
Rank detail
  1. Lance Corporal, 54th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
  2. Sergeant (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Attack South East of Souchez (Vimy Ridge)
Commemoration location: Middleton NS war memorial

Images

Middleton NS war memorial

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 618566
LAC ID: 557984
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B7259-S027
Uploader's Notes:

Son of John Primose and Clara Bella Zulene Dodge Neily. Brother of Vance Le Roy Neily who was also killed in action on August 17, 1917.

Served in the RCMP for 3 years, Winnipeg Police for 5 years and the RNWMP for 1 year. Attested into the 158th Duke of Connaught's Own.

Uploader's Research notes:

158th Battalion Nominal Roll

Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948" database

[Sergeant Army Canadian Infantry 158th Battalion Lance Corporal Army Canadian Infantry 54th Battalion ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-09-11