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Military service
Service number:
107447
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 2nd Mounted Rifles
Birth:
February 10, 1894
Death:
May 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 32
Additional information
Son of George and Janet Moir, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Douglas Norman Moir
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Private Douglas Norman Moir was killed in action in the trenches at Hooge in May 1916. His body was buried in the Maple Copse Cemetery near Hooge, approximately 2.5 miles east of Ypres. During the Battle of Mount Sorrel in June 1916, and is subsequent battles, the original Maple Copse Cemetery was almost entirely obliterated. The cemetery, on the north side of the copse (plantation) was enclosed after the armistice, however few of the original graves could be identified. -
Photo of Douglas Norman Moir
Photo probably taken before he left for WW1. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 31, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y147uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Norman Moir
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Norman Moir
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Norman Moir
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Norman Moir
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Norman Moir
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Norman Moir
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 137 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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