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Military service
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Railway Troops
Division:
3rd Bn.
Death:
May 19, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. B. 2.
Digital gallery of Captain Henry Edward Redmond Hamilton
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Coupre de presse
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Tableau d'honneur
Canadian National Railways - World War One Roll of Honour. Captain Henry Edward Redmond Hamilton completed his Officers' Declaration Paper in September 1916 for the 239th Battalion C.E.F. Hamilton was a Civil Engineer. He had prior military experience with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. Born in Waterford, Ireland, Hamilton's home address in 1916 was 63 Douglas Lodge, Vancouver, British Columbia. He was married to Margaret Farron Hamilton. In honoured memory. -
Pierre Tombale
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Feuille d'engagement
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Photo de HENRY EDWARD REDMOND HAMILTON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Pierre tombale
These markers were created in memory of Major Anthony L. McHugh and Captain Henry E.R. Hamilton, officers with the Canadian Railway Troops who were killed on May 19, 1917 while laying a railroad over Vimy Ridge. (Library and Archives Canada) -
Coupure de presse
From the Vancouver Daily Province June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 250 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.
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