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• Name OSLER
• Initials RFL
• First name RALPH FEATHERSTONE LAKE
• Place of birth Winnipeg
• Country Manitoba
• Family Only son of Frank Osler and Isobel Fowler, Summerland, BC and nephew of Sir Edmund Osler, Toronto and Sir William Osler, Oxford. Edward Revere Osler died 30 August 1917 and is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
• Education McGill University, Montreal
• Profession Personal secretary for Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, the President of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 9 November 1914, Victoria. He joined the Rocky Mountain Rangers (H Company).
• Service number 17544
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 16th Bn. Manitoba Regiment (Canadian Scottish)
• Division - Brigade 3rd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To the front April 1915

Death

• Wounded 13 June, Ypres
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds penetrating abdomen in n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 16 June 1916
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - A - 24

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