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Private Hugh Walter McWhirter

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Military service

Service number: 902
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Division: 1ST Bn.
Birth: New Richmond, Bonaventure
Enlistment: January 4, 1915
Death: September 22, 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. A. 4.
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Son of Hugh Henry and Lottie McWhirter, of Humbermouth, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. Pte McWhirter was the first member of The Royal Newfoundland Regiment to be killed in the First World War.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 79 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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HILL 10 CEMETERY Turkey

Hill 10 is a low isolated mound on the north side of the Salt Lake, close to the sea shore, inland from Suvla Bay.

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