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Son of Evan and Maria Beynon, of 84, Chepstow Rd., Cwmparc, Trorchy, Glam.
Digital gallery of Sapper Ivor Beynon
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Sapper Ivor Beynon
Concentration of Graves COG-BR for Plot 6 Row C Grave 5 showing that the remains of Sapper Ivor Beynon were recovered at trench map coordinates 28.I.1.b.9.3, which is on the north side of Ypres, Belgium (now Ipers), on the east side of the canal.
McMaster Digital Map [Ypres] 28:
http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A4138/-/collection
Digital gallery of
Sapper Ivor Beynon
British troops (identifiable by Lee Enfield Rifles) paying their respects at the battlefield grave site of Ivor Beynon. As the casualty report states, Sapper Beynon of the 1st Field Company, Canadian Engineers, was on guard duty on the bridge over the Yser Canal when he was struck in the head and killed instantly by a piece of enemy shrapnel. Photo recovered by Aurel Secu, Ypres Belgium.
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bernard to Binyon. Mircoform Sequence 9; Volume Number 31829_B016719; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 153 Page 375 of 652
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Concentration of Graves COG-BR for Plot 6 Row C Grave 5 showing that the remains of Sapper Ivor Beynon were recovered at trench map coordinates 28.I.1.b.9.3, which is on the north side of Ypres, Belgium (now Ipers), on the east side of the canal. McMaster Digital Map [Ypres] 28: http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A4138/-/collection
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Google Earth Satellite Image of where the remains were recovered at 28.I.1.b.9.3. Provided by Aurel Secu, Ypres Belgium.
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Original battlefield grave site of Ivor Beynon when he was buried on the east side of the canal north of Ypres on 24 April 1915. Photo recovered by Aurel Secu, Ypres Belgium.
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British troops (identifiable by Lee Enfield Rifles) paying their respects at the battlefield grave site of Ivor Beynon. As the casualty report states, Sapper Beynon of the 1st Field Company, Canadian Engineers, was on guard duty on the bridge over the Yser Canal when he was struck in the head and killed instantly by a piece of enemy shrapnel. Photo recovered by Aurel Secu, Ypres Belgium.
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Page 5 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY (IEPER) Belgium
The DUHALLOW ADS.CEMETERY is located on the Diksmuidseweg N369 road direction Boezinge. From the station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the next roundabout, here turn right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the 2nd turning on the left which is the Diksmuidseweg. The cemetery is on the right hand side of the road just past the first turning on the right.
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