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    3. Hi fellow researchers: Maybe someone reading the following has a link. Hope no one minds a little new stuff. I found the following interesting. On June 27th. 1998, in the Calgary Herald, reprinted from the Edmonton Journal, here in Alberta. An unknown soldier who was buried at a rural cemetary in France was identified after 80 years. His tombstone said only that he was a Sergeant of the Great War, a member of the newly-formed Princess Patricia's light infantry. In 1999, the Princess Pats regiment will mark it's 85th anniversary. Through research he is now known. His name was George Ross THOMPSON, born in Kenora, Ontario on April 5, 1888. He was single and worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway when he enlisted in Oct. 1914. He was one of six Sergeants from the regiment who died on Sept. 28, 1918, in an assault on the Marcoing Line, during the "Last One Hundred Days" campaign to defeat the German army. Thompson was the only one who was not identified. Thompson's mother died in Winnipeg, Manitoba during WW I, he had a brother and a sister but its not know if they are alive or if they had children. Captain Steve NEWMAN, regimental adjutant with the Princess Pats would like to locate any surviving family members.

    09/23/1998 08:48:44