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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
77840
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
December 16, 1892
Weymouth, England
Enlistment:
October 22, 1914
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
August 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A/C. Screen Wall.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Mercy Nixon Rees, of Westminster, London, England.
Additional citations
Military Medal
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 3, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y229uvic/mode/1up?view=theater. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 10, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y235uvic/mode/1up?view=theater. -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal Hugh Arthur Rees
Digital gallery of
Corporal Hugh Arthur Rees
Digital gallery of
Corporal Hugh Arthur Rees
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Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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