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Robert Hood

In memory of:

Private Robert Hood

September 30, 1918
Blécourt, France

Military Service

Service Number:

3031097

Age:

46

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

87th Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

October 15, 1871
Newtown on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Enlistment:

November 14, 1917
Toronto, Ontario

Son of John Hood and Margaret Moncrieff, of Newton on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. He stated being born in 1875 when he enlisted and named his sister Jane «Jeannie » (wife of Robert McCulloch) as next of kin.

Upon his arrival in France, he was with a group of Anglophones who, on 6 September 1918, were transferred by error to the 22nd Battalion. On 14 September, he was re-transferred to the 87th Battalion, an Anglophone unit, and he died in action two weeks later.

Commemorated on Page 431 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

CANTIMPRE CANADIAN CEMETERY
Nord, France

Grave Reference:

C. 6.

Location:

The route to the Cantimpre Canadian Cemetery is signposted from the D939 at Raillencourt and is located 1 kilometre north of Sailly on the D140 on the left hand side of the road towards Sancourt. Sailly is a village in the Department of the Nord approximately 3 kilometres north-west of Cambrai just to the north of the main road from Arras to Cambrai (D939). The "Marcoing Line," one of the German defence systems before Cambrai, ran from Marcoing Northward through Sailly to the West of Cantimpre and the East of the village of Haynecourt. The Cemetery at Cantimpre was originally called the Marcoing Line British Cemetery.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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