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Private Alexander Chalmers

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Military service

Service number: 164700
Age: 27
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 75th Bn.
Birth: March 16, 1890
Enlistment: Ontario
Death: June 8, 1917

Burial/memorial information

CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2
Grave reference: 6.C.26.
Additional information
Son of Nathaniel and Annie Chalmers of West Toronto, Ontario. His brother, Private William Chalmers, was killed in action on October 25, 1916 and is commemorated on Vimy Memorial.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 214 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 Pas de Calais, France

The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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