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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 13.12.1916
  • Place of enlistment: Lethbridge, Alberta.
  • Service no: 895466
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry
  • Unit/Ship: 50th Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 24
  • Date of Death: 25.10.1917
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 24-28-30

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 25.12.1892
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: Lethbridge, Alberta
  • Occupation: Camp Cook
  • Mother:

    Margaret M Duncan, 509 Strathmartine Rd, Dundee

  • Father:

    David Duncan, 509 Strathmartine Rd, Dundee

  • Siblings:

    George & John

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about Alexander Davidson Duncan

Alexander has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial.

For more information on Alexander, visit Alexander’s Memorial and Alexander’s Service Record and Circumstances of Death Register

There is a reference to Alexander in  the Dundee local Newspapers held within the Central Library Dundee.

Peoples Journal 12/01/1918 page 6.

Alexander was the brother of Pte George Duncan, 1001004, 78th Battalion Canadian Infantry and Pte John Fox Duncan, 1000771, 78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry

Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson

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