Military service
Service number:
760100
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
54th Bn.
Birth:
January 11, 1897
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Enlistment:
December 1, 1915
New Westminister, British Columbia
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3.D.1.
Memorial:
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
Additional information
Son of James and Kate Raper, of Vananda, Texada Island, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Benjamin Raper
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Group photo
He is standing beside his beloved sister Ethel, and friend Jack Abrams, all of Texada Isalnd, BC. -
Paying respects
My would-be great Uncle, Tom Raper, was a teenager from Van Anda, B.C., when he went off to World War I in a spirit of adventure. When his sister, my great Aunt Ethel died about 20 years ago at 94 years old, we found several letters he had written from his training and then from the Front. She had saved them all these years and through several moves. Two years ago, my younger son and I travelled to Vimy and paid tribute to him in visiting his grave and the Vimy memorial. My cousin's son has just returned from his second visit there. Young Tom is not forgotten. -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Canadian Cemetery No. 2 is located on the grounds of Canada's Vimy Memorial. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres north of Arras, France. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Canadian Cemetery No 2
Canadian Cemetery No. 2 - The Canadian Cemetery No. 2 is located on Vimy Ridge and is part of the grounds of Canada's Vimy Memorial. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres north of Arras, France.(John & Anne Stephens 2013)
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Benjamin Raper
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Benjamin Raper
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Benjamin Raper
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Benjamin Raper
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 313 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 Pas de Calais, France
The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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