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Private JOSEPH POWELL

Service Number: 739175
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Labour Corps

1st Labour Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1917

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

II. F. 33.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Mary Powell, of Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription MAY HIS REWARD BE AS GREAT AS HIS SACRIFICE
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Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 953
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