# Veterans Day Observance **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 8, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day-observance/953975 "2021-11-08T13:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
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This summer, the City of Moose Jaw erected a plaque to [Pvt. George Price](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lawrence_Price), of Nova Scotia and then Moose Jaw, the last known Commonwealth soldier to die in battle in the Great War. Serving with the Nor’West Battalion of the Saskatchewan Regiment, he was shot by a German sniper in Ville-sur-Haine, Belgium, at 10:58 am, November 11, 1918 and died a minute later. By coincidence, he is buried in the same Commonwealth cemetery as the first British soldier to die in WWI, [Pvt. John Parr](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-and-comparisons-to-vietnam/211800). God rest their souls, and all those in-between. > **[Plaque Unveiled to Honour Moose Jaw's Pvt. George Price](https://www.discovermoosejaw.com/articles/plaque-unveiled-to-commemorate-pvt-george-price)** > > A plaque was unveiled in Crescent Park on Thursday, commemorating the final commonwealth casualty of the First World War. Pvt. George Lawrence Price was born and raised in Nova Scotia but moved out west to Moose Jaw where he enlisted 210th Infantry... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-day-observance/953975)._