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Lieutenant Reginald Basil Hingston

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Military service

Age: 33
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 24th Bn.
Birth: June 17, 1885 Montreal
Enlistment: June 13, 1916
Death: August 8, 1918

Burial/memorial information

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: XVI. F. 5.
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Son of Sir William Hingston, and of Lady Hingston of Montreal, Quebec. Spouse of Marie Angelina A. Bertha Hingston, of Montreal, Quebec.

Father of Captain Basil William H Hingston, who died during service with the South Staffordshire Regiment.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 429 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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