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Private Robert Addison Drummond

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Military service

Service number: 454513
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division: 2nd Bn.
Birth: June 10, 1898
Enlistment: July 3, 1915
Death: July 29, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. H. 18.
Additional information

Son of David and Ann Drummond of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

Brother of Gunner James Drummond, who died after service with the Canadian Field Artillery and David who also served and survived the war.

Digitized service file.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 231 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France

Maroc is a cemetery located in the village of Grenay which is about 15 kilometres south-east of Bethune. From Lens take the N43 towards Bethune. After Loos-en-Gohelle turn left (after the petrol station) and follow straight on. The MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY is a few kilometres on the right side of the road, in the village.

The Cemetery was begun by French troops in August, 1915, but it was first used as a British Cemetery by the 47th (London) Division in January, 1916. During the greater part of the War it was a front-line cemetery, protected from enemy observation by a slight rise in the ground, and used by fighting units and Field Ambulances. Plot II was begun in April, 1917, by the 46th (North Midland) Division. By the middle of October, 1918, Plot III, Row A and part of Row B, had been filled; and the remainder of Plot III and the ends of certain rows in Plot I contain the remains of soldiers buried on the battlefields, or in small cemeteries, North and East of Grenay, and brought in after the Armistice. The 8th Canadian Battalion erected a wooden memorial in the cemetery to their officers and men who fell in the Battle of Hill 70 (East of Loos) on the 15th August, 1917.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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