Détails victime

Blessé The battalion held a position on a ridge of higher ground at Westhoek outside Ypres on the Menin Road. They were to relieve units the 8th Division when ordered. From the 1st August to the 5th they held firm through heavy rainfall and continuous enemy shell fire. The regimental history records: "All night the front of the ridge was plastered with gas-shells of a new type which caused many casualties. the removal of the wounded was most difficult through the deep slime into which the sodden clay was fast being converted." When the Battalion was finally relieved after dark on the 5th, they had lost 22 men killed and 106 wounded (including three officers).
Caractère des blessures Died of gunshot wounds on back in n°3 Canadian CCS
Date du décès 3 August 1917
Décédé à l'âge de 19
Indication du tombe Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVII - C - 13