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Military service
Service number:
145493
Age:
39
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
87th Bn.
Birth:
March 30, 1877
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Charles Hansen
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Photo of Charles Hansen
Pte. Hansen enlisted as a part of the 77th Overseas Battalion CEF on November 20th, 1915 in Ottawa. Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His wife, Olga Hansen, lived at 155 York Street in Ottawa. Hansen was born in 1877 and indicated on his attestation that he worked as a labourer. This photograph appeared in "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Insciption
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Hansen
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Hansen
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Hansen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 98 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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