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Prior, A C



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Arthur Charles Prior

 


Arthur Charles Prior

Company Sergeant Major Arthur Charles Prior
19th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
04/10/1916

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record

Son of May Prior, Grande Bouet, Guernsey. 3 years in Royal Artillery.

Killed or wounded somewhere near the Usna Valley, aged 28 years. Just 22 days beforehand he has been credited with capturing a German soldier in a shell hole in front of the Canadian trenches and mentioned in a dispatch to his Battalion HQ. (IWM)