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Rank Private
Service # 123503
Unit # 70th battalion
24th Reg. Yes
Resident Wallaceburg
Books Of Rememberance Page Available

Private Snowden trained with the Wallaceburg Home Guards from their organization until his enlistment.

He left for overseas with the 70th battalion Apr. 21, 1917, and arrived in England May 5.

He was transferred to the 58th battalion, France, and served but three months in the trenches when he was killed in action Aug. 19, 1916, while eating supper. He was buried with full military honors near Ypres.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Cenotaph Wallaceburg Cenotaph
Sources Chatham Daily Planet (27-09-1919), Trinity Methodist Church - Roll of Honour - Wallaceburg, NTR
Height 5'7"
Eye Colour blue
Age 22
Complexion fair
Hair brown
Race white
Birthplace London ON
Religion Protestant
Last Place of Employment Wallaceburg Brass Works
Average Earnings 15/wk
Marital Status single
When Enlisted Sept. 1916
Where Enlisted London ON
Next of Kin H.J. Snowden, London, ON

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