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Military service
Service number:
248583
Age:
22
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
8th Brigade
Birth:
May 28, 1896
Death:
July 31, 1918
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Son of John and Isabelle Hilchie, of Pope's Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Gunner Harry Hilchie
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 429 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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