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Military service
Service number:
445024
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
60th Bn.
Death:
June 14, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30
Additional information
Son of Huntley and Emma H. Stairs, of Pinder, New Brunswick.
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Photo of Hazen Cook Stairs
Enlisted June 19, 1915 in the 55TH Battalion and sailed October 30, 1915 from Montreal, Quebec aboard the S.S. Corsican. Arrived in England on November 9, 1915 where he was transferred to the 60TH Battalion, Infantry. Shipped to France and on June 6, 1916 joined his fighting unit. Killed in action on Wednesday, June 14, 1916. -
Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Hazen Cook Stairs
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Private Hazen Cook Stairs
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Private Hazen Cook Stairs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 167 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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