The following two books contain the history of the 25th Battalion of Nova 
     
     Scotia Highlanders: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lt. Ralph Lewis, Over the Top With the 25th (Halifax, H.H. Marshal, Ltd., 
     
     1918). 
     
    
   
   
    
     W.R. Bird, No Retreating Footsteps, North Nova Scotia Highlanders. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, 
     
     Page 523 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pte. Wilkinson, George Robert Goldsmith, 25th Bn. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE WAR GRAVES OF 
     
     THE BRITISH EMPIRE 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Register of the names of those 
     
     who fell in the Great War 
     
     and are buried in 
     
     The Fouquescourt Group of Cemeteries 
     
     France 
     
    
   
   
    
     VRELY COMMUNAL CEMETERY 
     
     EXTENSION 
     
     CEMETERY INDEX NUMBER Fr. 694. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VRELY is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the 
     
     road from Albert to Montdidier, two miles from Rosieres station on the main 
     
     railway line from Amiens to Laon. It was captured by the 2nd Canadian Division 
     
     on the 9th August, 1918. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Communal Cemetery is at the North-West end of the village, on the road 
     
     to Caix. A German Extension, now removed, was made on the North-West, and 
     
     the British Extension is at the North corner of the Cemetery. It was made by the 
     
     Canadian Corps Burial Officer after the capture of the village. It contains the 
     
     graves of 39 Canadian soldiers, four of whom are unidentified and who belonged 
     
     mainly to the 22nd, 24th and 25th Battalions, and four from the United 
     
     Kingdom. It covers an area of 238 yards. It is enclosed on three sides by a low 
     
     brick wall and on the fourth by the wall of the Communal Cemetery; and climb- 
     
     ing roses are trained against the walls. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Register records particulars of 43 War Graves. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WILKINSON, Pte. George Robert Goldsmith, 
     
     713216; 25th Bn. (Nova Scotia Regt.). Killed 
     
     in action 9th Aug., 1918. Age 21. Son of 
     
     Albert and Alice Wilkinson, of Alberton, 
     
     Prince Edward Island. Born at Miminegash, 
     
     Prince Edward Island. A. 23. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Complied and Published by order of the Imperial War 
     
     Graves Commission, London. 1928. 
     
    
   
   
    
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