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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn.
Death:
April 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mary E. Torrens Yerxa, of Fairville, New Brunswick, and the late Randolph K. Yerxa; husband of Louise King Yerxa.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Guy Randolph Yerxa
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Newspaper Clipping
The Calgary Daily Herald May 29 1917 -
Circumstances of death registers
The War Graves Register (Form E-13) for Lieutenant Yerxa reports that his battlefield burial location was at trench map coordinates 57c.S.16.c.3.2 (to 3.5). In the event that you are researching this Lieutenant, the trench map coordinates are reported incorrectly. At the time of his death, Lieutenant Yerxa was with the 50th Infantry Battalion at Hill 145 on the second day of the assault on Vimy Ridge. The correct map for that location is 36c and not 57c, so the remains would have been buried at 36c.S.16.c.3.2 (to 3.5). -
Memorial
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Fredericton (New Brunswick) Daily Gleaner c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War One issue of the Fredericton (New Brunswick) Daily Gleaner c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Guy Randolph Yerxa
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Guy Randolph Yerxa
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Guy Randolph Yerxa
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Guy Randolph Yerxa
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Guy Randolph Yerxa
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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