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Private Arthur Loyer

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Military service

Service number: 1012039
Age: 20
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division: 2nd Bn.
Birth: October 14, 1897 Clarkstown (Eastview), Ontario
Enlistment: March 31, 1916
Death: October 1, 1918 Sancourt, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. A. 21.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Maxime-Arthur Loyer. Son of Félix Loyer and Julie Hamelin, of Eastview (Ottawa), Ontario. He had declared to be born in 1896 when he enlisted.

When he arrived in France he was assigned to the 22nd Battalion but he never joined the unit as such.

After three months in the Canadian Corps reinforcement camp, he was attached on February 26th, 1918, to the 5th Brigade's machine gun company. Then, a month later, he was transferred from the strength of the 22nd Battalion to the 2nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 451 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADA CEMETERY (Tilloy-les-Cambrai) Nord, France

Tilloy-les-Cambrai is a village on the north-western outskirts of the town of Cambrai and a little east of the road to Douai. Follow the N30 (Cambrai Ring Road) from Cambrai to its junction with the Tilloy-les-Cambrai road, the D49, just after the junction of the N30 and the N43 (Douai road). Follow the D49 for approximately 2.2 kilometres, crossing the bridge over the motorway, to a side road on the west-south-west (left) side. The Canada Cemetery lies 200 metres away at the end of the side road.

Tilloy was captured by the Canadian Corps about the 1st October, 1918, in the face of strong opposition, and the cemetery was made by their Burial Officer on the 13th October. It is enclosed by a brick wall, and sheltered from the road by a row of willows; and a maple tree is planted at the South-East corner.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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