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Private James Robert Chalmers

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Military service

Service number: 645033
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 54th Bn.
Birth: November 1, 1892
Enlistment: British Columbia
Death: April 9, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: B. 14.
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Son of William and lsabella Robb Chalmers, of Longhope, Orkney, Scotland.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 214 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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GIVENCHY ROAD CANADIAN CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

The Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery at Neuville-St Vaast is a small cemetery situated in the compound of the Vimy Memorial Park which contains the Vimy Memorial. The village of Neuville-St Vaast is in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, approximately 8 kilometres north of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The cemetery is approximately 260 metres past Canadian Cemetery No.2 following the one-way system to rejoin the avenue leading back to the main road. The cemetery contains the graves of soldiers all of whom fell on the 9th April, 1917, or on one of the four following days. The cemetery covers an area of 849 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall. The numerous groups of graves made about this time by the Canadian Corps Burial Officer were, as a rule, not named but serially lettered and numbered. This cemetery was originally called CD 1.

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