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Captain Percy John Lester Richards

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 43rd BN
Birth: December 23, 1889 Walkerton, Ontario
Enlistment: July 10, 1915 Alberta
Death: August 8, 1918

Burial/memorial information

HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY, DOMART-SUR-LA-LUCE
Grave reference: A.25
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Son of Margaret Richards of Calgary, Alberta. On enlistment, Captain Richards stated he was single and employed as a druggist. Captain Richards has militia service with the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers. He also served for three years with the 17th Calgary Field Ambulance.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 491 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY, DOMART-SUR-LA-LUCE Somme, France

Domart-sur-la-Luce is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme in the valley of the Luce on the road from Amiens to Roye. Hourges is a hamlet on the same road a little south-east of the village and HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY is on the south-west side of the road.

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