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Private EDGAR GIDEON WICKSEY

Service Number: 767112
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Pioneers

123rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 November 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES

I. A. 36.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Gideon and Mary Ann Wicksey, of Cheltenham, England; husband of Rachel Kidd (formerly Wicksey nee Tomlinson), of 14, French Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1172
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