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Sergeant Arthur Smith

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Military service

Service number: 120723
Age: 21
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: February 13, 1896 Milbury, Worcester
Enlistment: September 7, 1915
Death: November 9, 1917

Burial/memorial information

POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: XXI. C. 1.
Additional information
Baptized Arthur-Félix Smith. Son of Arthur-Victor Smith and Emma-Lucie Salvas. His father died in 1903 in the USA and his mother remarried to Paul Lemoine in 1906, in Sorel, Québec. His family resided in Sorel and temporarily moved to the USA after the war, including Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 327 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY Belgium

POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY is located 10 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Brugseweg (N313), a road connecting Ieper to Brugge.

Two streets connect Ieper town centre onto the Brugseweg; Torhoutstraat leads from the market square onto the Kalfvaartstraat. At the end of Kalfvaartstraat is a large junction on which Brugseweg is the first right hand turning.

The cemetery itself lies 10 Km along the Brugseweg on the right hand side of the road after passing through the village of Poelcapelle (now Poelkapelle).

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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