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Private Charles Cowan Letham

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1891-04-22
Place of birth: Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland
Next of kin: Annie Letham (mother) 485 Wardlow Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Clerk
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death: 1917-04-09
Cause of death: Killed in action

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 132432
Highest Rank: Private
Rank detail
  1. Private, 73rd Battalion, Infantry (Army).
  2. Private (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Previously reported Missing, now Killed in Action.

RESEARCH INFORMATION

LAC ID: 529933
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B5601-S011
Uploader's Research notes:

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

Commemorated on Page 274 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.

[Private Army Canadian Infantry 73rd Battalion A Company 3rd Platoon Private Army Canadian Machine Gun Corps 12th Machine Gun Company ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2007-12-01
Last modified: 2014-02-27