Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Robert Holmes Gillespie
In memory of:
Second Lieutenant Robert Holmes Gillespie
August 7, 1918
Military Service
Air Force
Royal Air Force
15th Sqdn.
Additional Information
Commemorated on Page 587 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
FIENVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme, France
A. 15.
Fienvillers is a village in the Department of the Somme, on the Doullens-Abbeville main road, 11 kilometres south-west of Doullens. There is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the Doullens-Abbeville main road. The FIENVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY is at the south-east side of the road to Pernois, near the south-west corner of the village.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Details
Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of August 24, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y224uvic/mode/1up?view=theater. Note that Second Lieutenant Gillespie's regimental number while serving with the C.E.F. was 791153
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