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Military service
Service number:
2188482
Age:
25
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Forestry Corps
Division:
76th Coy.
Birth:
November 18, 1892
London, England
Enlistment:
March 29, 1917
Saskatchewan
Death:
January 28, 1918
Between Appilly and Eclaron, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1538.
Additional information
Son of Sidney Thomas and Barbara G. Grimes, of Hammerfield, Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, England.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 420 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY Marne, France
Vitry-le-Francois is a major town in the department of Marne, 33 kilometres south-east of Chalon-en-Champagne. The French Military Cemetery is an extension of the Communal Cemetery, and its entrance is on Rue des Cypres. It is well signposted from the centre of the town. The cemetery contains 7 Commonwelth war graves. The Commonwealth War Graves Plot is in the south west part of the cemetery, and Private Malcolm's grave is at the south end of the cemetery between large trees.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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