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Rank Private
Service # 401837
Unit # 7th, 70th battalion
24th Reg. Yes
Resident Morpeth
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Private Wells transferred from the 70th to the 33rd battalion, going overseas Mar. 11, 1916.

After training at St. Martin’s Plains he proceeded to France May 24, drafted to the 7th British Columbia Battalion.

He entered the trenches in Flanders June 8, 1916, going from there to the Somme, where he was killed in action Sept. 24.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Cenotaph Dresden Cenotaph
Sources Chatham Daily Planet (27-09-1919), IODE, Blenheim Freedom Library, Stepping Back In Time - Trillium Trail in Dresden - Marie & Jeffrey Carter
Supplemental Information Father: William Wells, Dresden Mother: Mrs. Mary Ann Wells Sister: Eva May
Height 5'9-1/2"
Eye Colour grey
Age 18
Complexion fair
Hair dark brown
Race white
Birthplace Morpeth, ON
Religion Methodist
Last Place of Employment Student
Marital Status single
When Enlisted Sept. 23, 1915
Where Enlisted London, ON

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