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Military service
Service number:
424746
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
January 12, 1891
Death:
June 6, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVII. A. 6.
Digital gallery of Private Hugh James Doherty
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Document
Private Doherty was originally buried in the Koelberg (Kolenberg?) Forest German Military Cemetery, Trench Map Coordinates 28.K.32.c.4.5 (GPS= 50.8188, 3.0436) in German Grave D. His remains were exhumed and reburied in the Harlebeke New British Cemetery on 13 September 1924, as part of the IWGC project to concentrate fallen soldiers so that their grave sites could be properly maintained. This record shows his original grave site. -
Document
Private Doherty was originally buried in the Koelberg (Kolenberg?) Forest German Military Cemetery, Trench Map Coordinates 28.K.32.c.4.5 (GPS= 50.8188, 3.0436) in German Grave D. His remains were exhumed and reburied in the Harlebeke New British Cemetery on 13 September 1924, as part of the IWGC project to concentrate fallen soldiers so that their grave sites could be properly maintained. This record shows his new grave site. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 955 of 1084.
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Private Hugh James Doherty
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh James Doherty
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh James Doherty
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 78 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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