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Hector Ross

In memory of:

Second Corporal Hector Ross

May 8, 1916

Military Service


Service Number:

501312

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Engineers

Division:

1st Tunnelling Coy.

Additional Information


Born:

March 9, 1889

Commemorated on Page 156 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

I. A. 17.

Location:

Armentieres is a town in the Department of the Nord, on the Belgian frontier, 14.5 kilometres north-west of Lille. From the town of Armentieres take the D945 to Estaires. CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY is signposted off this road just before Erquinghem-sur-la-Lys.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Entrance
  • Cemetery
  • Grave Marker
  • Memorial– Second Corporal HECTOR ROSS, who died on May 8, 1916 and is buried at CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, Nord, France, is commemorated on this panel of the War Memorial in Sydney, Nova Scotia, which was  ERECTED BY THE L.O.L. OF CAPE BRETON TO THE MEMORY OF OUR BROTHERS WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR ONE AND TWO.
  • War Memorial– Statue of soldier atop the War Memorial in Sydney Nova Scotia.
  • War Memorial– Attestation Paper Front 
Source:  Soldiers of the First World War.  Library and Archives Canada
  • Attestation papers– Attestation Paper Back 
Source:  Soldiers of the First World War.  Library and Archives Canada

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