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Military service
Service number:
110240
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
January 11, 1896
Sherbrooke, Québec
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of George Henry and Emma Sylvester Hewitt, of St. Catherines, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Thomas Hewitt
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Inscription
Inscription on plate 32 of the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. -
Sherbrooke Monument
Cover of the original program distributed at the unveiling of the Sherbrooke WWI memorial on November 7th, 1926, and two images of the monument. The monument was designed by Mr. G. W. Hill of Montreal, Quebec with bronze figures cast in Belgium and granite from the Stanstead district. The bronze Memorial tablet lists 249 names. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Robert Thomas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Thomas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Thomas Hewitt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 102 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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