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Remembered Today:

The First and the Last


Gordon Caldecott

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L/14196 Pte John Parr 4th Btn Middlesex Regt 21/08/14 aged 20.

Son of Edward and Alice Parr, 52 Lodge Lane, North Finchley.

Buried I.A.10 St Symphorien Military Cemetery.

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L/12643 Pte George Edwin Ellison 5th Royal irish Lancers 11/11/18.

Husband of Hannah Ellison of 49 Edmund Street, Bank, Leeds.

Buried I.B23 St Symphorien Military Cemetery.

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256265 Pte George Lawrence Price 28th Btn Saskatchewan Regt CEF.

Aged 25. 11/11/18.

Son of James and Annie Price, Port Williams, Kings Co, Nova Scotia.

V.C.4 St Symphorien Military Cemetery.

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Yes Price is widely believed to be the last British Empire man. There was a story that he was sniped while accepting flowers from a child but this appears to be myth.

I think this is the most beautiful cemetery on the Western Front.

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