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Sapper Robert Alexander

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Military service

Service number: 636787
Age: 32
Rank: Sapper
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Railway Troops
Division: 7th Bn.
Birth: May 9, 1885 Elzaver Township, Ontario
Enlistment: March 7, 1916 Ontario
Death: April 21, 1918 Aire, Belgium

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. E. 28.
Additional information
Son of John and Hannah Alexander of Queensborough, Ontario. Brother of Isaac Alexander of Queensborough, Ontario and Private John James Alexander, 21st Battalion, killed in action 9 May 1917.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 358 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Aire is an old fortified town on the north-eastern boundary of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. It lies in the valley of the Lys, on the road, and the canal, between St. Omer and Bethune. It is about 14 kilometres south-south-east of St. Omer.

The AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY is 0.75 kilometres north of the town, on the road to St. Omer and the 4 British plots are on the east side.

The entrance from the Communal Cemetery is by a porch on the west side. A paved walk leads between the British graves to the War Stone, which is on the east side, backed by a brick and stone screen with semicircular stone niches at either end. The Cross stands at the entrance and at the south end is a French Memorial.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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