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Second Lieutenant Hugh Frederick Raleigh Amesbury

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Military service

Age: 27
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Bedfordshire Regiment
Division: 5th Bn. attd. D Coy.
Birth: Gujranwala, Punjab, India
Enlistment: British Columbia
Death: November 20, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. B. 5.
Additional information

Son of Major Frederick Cholmondeley Dering Amesbury (Indian Army), and of Henrietta Ferris Amesbury; husband of Emma Mary Amesbury, of London. Served with 1st Division Canadian Expeditionary Force at Ypres and on the Somme. Wounded at Thiepval July, 1916.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 575 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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RIBECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France

Ribecourt is a village about 10 kilometres south-west of Cambrai. Ribecourt British Cemetery lies on the south side of the village on the D.89 heading towards Villers Plouich.

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