In Memory Of

MELVILLE, MAXWELL ARTHUR

Service Details
Age:
 35
Date of Birth:
 1882-08-21
Service No:
 426140
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 8th Bn.
Unit 2:
 "B" Coy.
Regiment:
 Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Date of Death:
 1918-08-09
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, near Amiens
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 A. 20.
Cemetery:
 VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Edward William and Mary Ann Melville, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Born at Cape Town, South Africa. Came from Cape Town, South Africa, to homestead SW22-37-7-W3 northeast of Grandora. Maxwell was working as a boilermaker when he enlisted at Moose Jaw on Christmas Eve 1914.