Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John Melvin
In memory of:
Sergeant John Melvin
April 7, 1917
Military Service
166838
23
Army
Canadian Pioneers
2nd
Mentioned in Despatches
Additional Information
Son of Eliza and the late David Melvin, of Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
Commemorated on Page 293 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
VI. B. 8.
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Details
Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Details
Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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