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Military service
Service number:
464501
Age:
20
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
January 6, 1894
Death:
May 6, 1917
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Son of T. M. Hoskins and Mary Hoskins, of Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Ernest Charles Hoskins
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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)
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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)
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Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Ernest Charles Hoskins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 258 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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