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Lance Corporal Arthur Alexander Adamson

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Military service

Service number: 57781
Age: 27
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division: 20th Bn.
Enlistment: Ontario
Death: April 9, 1917

Burial/memorial information

LICHFIELD CRATER THELUS
Grave reference: Panel I. Col. I.
Additional information
Son of William and Isabella Adamson, of Dunfermline, Scotland. A miner of Schumacher Ontario. Enlisted November 1914.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 189 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LICHFIELD CRATER THELUS Pas de Calais, France

Lichfield Crater is a small cemetery situated by the hedge of the motorway A26 (Paris-Calais) behind the village of Neuville St Vaast. On entering Neuville St Vaast follow the directions for the Vimy Canadian Memorial and take the third road on the right toward the wood, go over the motorway and take the first right towards the fields. The cemetery lies in a field approximately 450 metres from the crossroads.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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