Military Service-
Rank: Private
Service Number: 808994
Age: 19
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 31st Battalion
A printer by trade and residing in Carmangay, Alberta, Canada, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 14 March 1916 in Calgary, Alberta.
Son of Mrs. L.C. Collin of Carmangay.
Private Wilfred Joseph Collin is commemorated on Page 218 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Military Service-
Rank: Private
Service Number: 808994
Age: 19
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 31st Battalion
A printer by trade and residing in Carmangay, Alberta, Canada, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 14 March 1916 in Calgary, Alberta.
Son of Mrs. L.C. Collin of Carmangay.
Private Wilfred Joseph Collin is commemorated on Page 218 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
TO THE MEMORY OF
THESE 25 SOLDIERS
OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
KILLED IN ACTION IN
1917 AND BURIED AT THE
TIME IN WILLERVAL,
CANADIAN CEMETERY,
WHOSE GRAVES WERE
DESTROYED IN LATER
BATTLES.
"THEIR GLORY
SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT."
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