Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Richard Coupland Spinks
In memory of:
Lieutenant Richard Coupland Spinks
April 10, 1917
Military Service
41
Army
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Additional Information
Son of Manly and Jenny Spinks, of Lancashire, England; husband of Mary Mildred Spinks, of 1121, Pacific St., Vancouver. Born at Liverpool, England.
Commemorated on Page 330 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. D. 6.
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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Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of April 18, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y111uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Medal (back) – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Photo of RICHARD COUPLAND SPINKS – Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
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