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Private Arthur Shurmer

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Military service

Service number: 453805
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division: "D" Coy. 1st Bn.
Birth: March 10, 1897
Death: September 27, 1918

Burial/memorial information

ONTARIO CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION
Grave reference: I. A. 12.
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Son of William and Clara Shurmer, of 17, Jerome St., Toronto.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 500 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ONTARIO CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION Nord, France

Sains-les-Marquion is a village and it lies approximately 2 kilometres south of Marquion, which lies on the main straight road from Arras to Cambrai. The Ontario Cemetery lies to the south of the village. The cemetery was made after the capture of Sains-les-Marquion by the Canadian Division on September 27, 1918. The Cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice and now covers an area of 949 square metres. It is enclosed by a rubble wall.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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