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Military service
Service number:
300241
Age:
20
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
9th Bde.
Birth:
April 15, 1897
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 1, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
April 16, 1917
Near Vimy, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. A. 12.
Digital gallery of Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
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Photo of Robert Alexander Dewar
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. This book includes hundreds of photographs of soldiers, however, there were often discrepancies in editing between the details published, and the official record. The attestation papers confirm this soldier's identity. -
Attestation Paper (Front)
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Attestation Paper (back)
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Group photo
Bob(Robert)Dewar and Edward Findlay. Photo taken between 1915 and 1917 -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Bois Carre British Cemetery
Bois Carre British Cemetery - The Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial.(John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 141 of 1084. He was buried just South of Vimy, 3 ¾ miles South of Lens. Subsequently, his body was exhumed and re-interred in BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY.
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
Digital gallery of
Gunner Robert Alexander Dewar
BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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