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Lieutenant Ernest Gordon Shepherd

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Military service

Age: 39
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 42nd Bn.
Death: October 1, 1918

Burial/memorial information

ONTARIO CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION
Grave reference: II. C. 4.
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Son of Francis J. Shepherd, M.D., and of Lilias Torrance his wife; husband of Louise Shepherd (nee McDonald), of 152, Mansfield St., Montreal.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 499 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ONTARIO CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION Nord, France

Sains-les-Marquion is a village and it lies approximately 2 kilometres south of Marquion, which lies on the main straight road from Arras to Cambrai. The Ontario Cemetery lies to the south of the village. The cemetery was made after the capture of Sains-les-Marquion by the Canadian Division on September 27, 1918. The Cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice and now covers an area of 949 square metres. It is enclosed by a rubble wall.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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