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Gunner MELVILLE GORDON BALL

Service Number: 256053
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Field Artillery

2nd T.M. Bty.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY

VIA. A. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ball, of Lindsay, Ontario; husband of Josephine M. Ball, of Sanatorium Ninette, Manitoba.
  • Personal Inscription NOTHING SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2144
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