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2011.016.003.149
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REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION AND VETERANS
ASSOCIATION RÉGIMENTAIRE ET ANCIENS COMBATTANTS
Gravestone of Pte Ed Pickup (Wm Gibson), 72nd Bn at Mountain View Cemetery
Gravestone of Pte Edwin Pickup (possibly aka as William Gibson), 72nd Battalion, CEF at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver in 1997. He died on 10 February 1946. On rear: "MV 97".
From the regimental history, 116070 Pte Edwin Pickup arrived in France on 4 April 1917. He is mentioned on the LAC database but there is no record shown. He has the same regimental number as William Gibson.
He may have also been known as 116070 William Gibson (11th Canadian Mounted Rifles and later Fort Garry Horse) who died on 3 March 1945.

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