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Military service
Service number:
414756
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
1st Battalion
Birth:
February 28, 1894
Marches Point, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
May 8, 1915
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A.A. 3.
Additional information
Son of James Carter and Anna Young of Marches Point, Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of Private Hugh Carter
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Photo of Hugh Carter
Hugh Carter, son of James Carter and Anna Young of Marches Point, Newfoundland. -
1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Hugh Carter's Company <br>1st Battalion Machine Gun Corps (WW1) -
Grave Marker
Headstone in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetry, Somme, France -
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetry
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetry, Somme, France, where Hugh Carter's Headstone is located. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 727 of 1004.
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Carter
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Carter
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Carter
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Carter
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Carter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 381 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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