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Personal data

• Name PITTS
• Initials HJ
• First name HARRY JAMES
• Place of birth Cambridge
• Country England
• Last residence Montreal, Canada
• Family Son of Shadrach and Emma Pitts; a sister, Rosa Emma.
• Profession Manager
• Extra info Signs the Visitors' Book of Talbot House on 6 April 1916

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 1 June 1915, Sherbrooke, Quebec
• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 5th Bn. Canadian Mounted Rifles
• Division - Brigade 8th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career previous experience with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, UK, and the the Duke of Connaught's Royal Canadian Hussars.

Death

• Wounded Mount Sorrel
• Type of wounds Killed in action near Armagh Wood (Maplecopse), died of shrapnel wounds on arm in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 3 June 1916
• Died at the age of 39
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - A - 8

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