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Private ERNEST ALBERT PROVEN

Service Number: 718867
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 12 April 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

IV. D. 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Harriett Proven, of Clan William, Manitoba. His brother, Harry James, also fell.
  • Personal Inscription LAST WORDS TO HIS COMRADE "GO ON I'LL MANAGE"
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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