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Richard Verhaeghe

In memory of:

Lance Corporal Richard Verhaeghe

October 30, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

114186

Age:

39

Force:

Army

Unit:

5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)

Citation(s):

British war Medal, Victory Medal

Honours and Awards:

Military Medal

Additional Information


Born:

July 27, 1878
Ostend, Belgium

Enlistment:

August 16, 1915
Camp Sewell, Manitoba

Spouse of Augusta Verhaeghe of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Commemorated on Page 343 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:

XXVIII. H. I.

Location:

Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The cemetery itself lies 700 meters along the Tynecotstraat on the right hand side of the road. Tyne Cot or Tyne Cottage was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. Three of these blockhouses still stand in the cemetery; the largest, which was captured on 4 October 1917 by the 3rd Australian Division, was chosen as the site for the Cross of Sacrifice by King George V during his pilgrimage to the cemeteries of the Western Front in Belgium and France in 1922. The Tyne Cot Cemetery is now the resting-place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Other– Medal Citation for Military Medal from Library and Archive Canada via "Ancestry"
  • Cemetery
  • Cross of Sacrifice
  • Grave marker
  • Grave marker– Picture from 4 January. Visiting the front with FB group WERELDOORLOG 1914. Our guide tells us the story of Richard Verhaeghe. He is the only Belgian ( Belgian / Canadian) soldier who is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery.

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