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Personal data

• Name WAGNER
• Initials BR
• First name BENJAMIN RALPH
• Place of birth Bridgewater
• Country Nova Scotia, Canada
• Last residence Mahone Bay, NS
• Family Son of Isaiah H. and Cassandra C. Wagner, of Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.
• Profession Machinist
• Extra info Commemorated: Mahone Bay, NS

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 2 March 1916, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
• Service number 734302
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 7th Bn. Canadian Railway Troops
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career 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

• Wounded 4 June, while working on a new railway line, hit by artillery fire
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on abdomen in n°10 CCs
• Date of death 6 June 1917
• Died at the age of 31
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XII - C - 38

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