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Baptized Joseph Henri Hamel. Son of Ovide Hamel (deceased in 1898) and Euphrasie Cliche-dit-Jeannot of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born on the 25th when he enlisted.
He had previously served for two and a half years with the 2nd Ambulance Unit of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Enlisted in the 41st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he sailed for Great Britain on October 18, 1915, and landed on the 28th in Plymouth, England. Temporarily assigned to the 23rd Reserve Battalion on April 20, 1916, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion on June 28 and crossed to France on the 29th, arriving in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais. He was seconded to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion from August 5 to 18, 1916. He was killed in action on February 28, 1917, in the woods of Les Alleux, near Mont-St-Éloi, Pas-de-Calais, during the capture of the trench known as La Folie.
Brother of Private George Hamel, who died five months earlier while serving with the same unit.
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La Presse - March 15, 1917 -
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Private Henri Hamel
Digital gallery of
Private Henri Hamel
Digital gallery of
Private Henri Hamel
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Page 250 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915.
Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
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