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  • WAGNER
  • BR
  • BENJAMIN RALPH
  • Bridgewater
  • Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Mahone Bay, NS
  • Son of Isaiah H. and Cassandra C. Wagner, of Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.
  • Machinist
  • Commemorated: Mahone Bay, NS

Military service

  • 2 March 1916, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
  • 734302
  • Sapper
  • 7th Bn. Canadian Railway Troops
  • C.E.F.
  • Enrolled, initially , in Windsor NS on 10 Jan 1916; found to be unfit for service due to a heart condition; re-enlisted two months later; assigned to the 112th Bn.; overseas July 1916; re-assigned to 7th Bn.

Death

  • 4 June, while working on a new railway line, hit by artillery fire
  • Died of shrapnel wounds on abdomen in n°10 CCs
  • 6 June 1917
  • 31
  • XII - C - 38

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