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Sergeant JAMES FRANCIS O'BRIEN

Service Number: 41572
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Field Artillery

2nd Bde.

Date of Death

Died 06 November 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

X. D. 15.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of the late James Frank and Mary Jane MacDonald O'Brien, of Glencoe, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription FAREWELL FOR A LITTLE WHILE R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1968
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