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Private Henri Hamel

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Military service

Service number: 416901
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: November 24, 1893 Howick, Chateauguay
Enlistment: March 11, 1915
Death: February 28, 1917 Tranchées de La Folie, Vimy, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IV. E. 2.
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Son of Ovide Hamel (deceased in 1898) and Euphrasie Cliche-dit-Jeannot of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born on the 25th when he enlisted.

Brother of Private George Hamel, who died five months earlier while serving with the same unit.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 250 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915.

Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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