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Military service
Service number:
3031097
Age:
46
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
87th Bn.
Birth:
October 15, 1871
Newtown on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
November 14, 1917
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 30, 1918
Blécourt, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
C. 6.
Additional information
Son of John Hood and Margaret Moncrieff, of Newton on Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. He stated being born in 1875 when he enlisted and named his sister Jane «Jeannie » (wife of Robert McCulloch) as next of kin.
Upon his arrival in France, he was with a group of Anglophones who, on 6 September 1918, were transferred by error to the 22nd Battalion. On 14 September, he was re-transferred to the 87th Battalion, an Anglophone unit, and he died in action two weeks later.
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Commemorated on:
Page 431 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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