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Hugh Alfred Silcox

In memory of:

Private Hugh Alfred Silcox

April 10, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

114530

Age:

25

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Light Horse

Additional Information

Born:

June 27, 1891

Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Silcox, of Shedden, Ontario. Native of Frome, Ontario.

Brother of Corporal Sidney Cliford Silcox, who died during service with the Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment).

Commemorated on Page 325 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

III. B. 8.

Location:

Les Quatre-Vents is a hamlet about 2 kilometres south-east of Estree-Cauchy, a village and commune 16 kilometres north-west of Arras on the old Roman road to Therouanne. This road is now part of the main road from Arras through Therouanne to Boulogne.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Grave Marker– Tombstone at Quartre Vents Military Cemetery

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    Grave Marker – Tombstone at Quartre Vents Military Cemetery
  • Cemetery– View of the cemetery from the road

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    Cemetery – View of the cemetery from the road
  • Newspaper clipping– From the London Free Press April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the London Free Press April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022

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    Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
  • Circumstances of death registers– Trooper Hugh Alfred Silcox

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    Circumstances of death registers – Trooper Hugh Alfred Silcox
  • War Memorial– Listing of those University of Saskatchewan alumni on the War Memorial Gates who gave their lives in the Great War. These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War 1914-1918 and gave their lives that we might live in freedom. Hugh Carter Allingham, William Mansell Codling, Renwick William Anderson, John Stewart Cowan, Reginald John Bateman , James Douglas Cumming, Charles McVicar Boyne, John Kenneth Dawson, Harold John Blair M.C., Reginald James Dillan, Charles Bremner, William Drysdale, James Brydon, Henry Egar, Frederick Burd, Lorne Burton Elliott, Thomas Caldwell, Wilfred John Evans, Gordon Mortimer Channell, John Pisher, Ernest R. Gilmer, Perry Dennington Kisbey, James Donald Graham M.M., Reginald A. Lovers M.M. Robert Carlion Grant, Shuli Gudbrandur Lindal, Arthur Gordon Gruchy, Arthur Stephen K. Lloyd, Cyril N. Harrington, Clifford McConnell, James Gordon Hill, Robert Peveral McClordick, Lawrence Homer, Louis James McCuien, Grenville Carson Hopkins, Michael Allan McMillan, Willis George Hunt, J. Ross McPherson D.S.O., William Yrides Hunter, Auned Yuil Mathews, Franklin Mager Keffer, Enoch Andrew Mitchell, James Shirley Heathcote, John James Moore, Ronald Charles Spence, Fred Nesbitt, Arthur George Slarkings, Joseph Lees Nicholls, George Swift, Angus Nicholson, Robert Sifton Turriff, George Irving Paterson, Wellesley Wesley-Long, Arthur Edward Parlett, Edward West, Elwyn Robert Reid, Frank West, Thomas Ritchie, Walter Ray Whittingham, Robert Rensay, Paul P Wiklun, Roy E. Shuttleworth M.M., Geoffrey Wilson, Hugh A. Silcox and Wilfrid Grant Wilson

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    War Memorial – Listing of those University of Saskatchewan alumni on the War Memorial Gates who gave their lives in the Great War. These are they who went forth from this University to the Great War 1914-1918 and gave their lives that we might live in freedom. Hugh Carter Allingham, William Mansell Codling, Renwick William Anderson, John Stewart Cowan, Reginald John Bateman , James Douglas Cumming, Charles McVicar Boyne, John Kenneth Dawson, Harold John Blair M.C., Reginald James Dillan, Charles Bremner, William Drysdale, James Brydon, Henry Egar, Frederick Burd, Lorne Burton Elliott, Thomas Caldwell, Wilfred John Evans, Gordon Mortimer Channell, John Pisher, Ernest R. Gilmer, Perry Dennington Kisbey, James Donald Graham M.M., Reginald A. Lovers M.M. Robert Carlion Grant, Shuli Gudbrandur Lindal, Arthur Gordon Gruchy, Arthur Stephen K. Lloyd, Cyril N. Harrington, Clifford McConnell, James Gordon Hill, Robert Peveral McClordick, Lawrence Homer, Louis James McCuien, Grenville Carson Hopkins, Michael Allan McMillan, Willis George Hunt, J. Ross McPherson D.S.O., William Yrides Hunter, Auned Yuil Mathews, Franklin Mager Keffer, Enoch Andrew Mitchell, James Shirley Heathcote, John James Moore, Ronald Charles Spence, Fred Nesbitt, Arthur George Slarkings, Joseph Lees Nicholls, George Swift, Angus Nicholson, Robert Sifton Turriff, George Irving Paterson, Wellesley Wesley-Long, Arthur Edward Parlett, Edward West, Elwyn Robert Reid, Frank West, Thomas Ritchie, Walter Ray Whittingham, Robert Rensay, Paul P Wiklun, Roy E. Shuttleworth M.M., Geoffrey Wilson, Hugh A. Silcox and Wilfrid Grant Wilson

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