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His real name was Ernest W. Hooper and he is commemorated on page 20 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Digital gallery of Private Norman Ernest Heath
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Private Norman Ernest Heath
Memorial headstone at Orono Cemetery, Orono, Ontario. The date of death on the stone is incorrect but his proper name is on it. He served as Ernest Heath or Norman Heath. His proper name was Leland Wilkinson Hooper according to this stone and cencus records. Parents were Harry and Ada Hooper who lived in the Durham Region east of Toronto.
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Private Norman Ernest Heath
Circumstance of Death for Private Ernest Hooper (served as Norman Ernest Heath) #12956 whose real date of death was 24 May 1915, during the final period of the Battle of Festubert. He was killed in the attack on the K.5. redoubt (defensive emplacement) and buried on the spot (Map Coordinates 36C.A.2.d.4.8 = GPS 50.5384, 2.7489). He served with the 5th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Division. His remains were not recovered at that time and thus his name is currently on the Vimy Memorial. This image has also been submitted for each of Ernest Hooper and Norman Heath.
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Private Norman Ernest Heath
E-13 War Graves Register for Private Ernest Hooper (served as Norman Ernest Heath) #12956 whose real date of death was 24 May 1915, during the final period of the Battle of Festubert. He was killed in the attack on the K.5. redoubt (defensive emplacement) and buried on the spot (Map Coordinates 36C.A.2.d.4.8 = GPS 50.5384, 2.7489). He served with the 5th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Division. His remains were not recovered at that time and thus his name is currently on the Vimy Memorial. This image has also been submitted for each of Ernest Hooper and Norman Heath.
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Memorial headstone at Orono Cemetery, Orono, Ontario. The date of death on the stone is incorrect but his proper name is on it. He served as Ernest Heath or Norman Heath. His proper name was Leland Wilkinson Hooper according to this stone and cencus records. Parents were Harry and Ada Hooper who lived in the Durham Region east of Toronto.
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Circumstance of Death for Private Ernest Hooper (served as Norman Ernest Heath) #12956 whose real date of death was 24 May 1915, during the final period of the Battle of Festubert. He was killed in the attack on the K.5. redoubt (defensive emplacement) and buried on the spot (Map Coordinates 36C.A.2.d.4.8 = GPS 50.5384, 2.7489). He served with the 5th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Division. His remains were not recovered at that time and thus his name is currently on the Vimy Memorial. This image has also been submitted for each of Ernest Hooper and Norman Heath.
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E-13 War Graves Register for Private Ernest Hooper (served as Norman Ernest Heath) #12956 whose real date of death was 24 May 1915, during the final period of the Battle of Festubert. He was killed in the attack on the K.5. redoubt (defensive emplacement) and buried on the spot (Map Coordinates 36C.A.2.d.4.8 = GPS 50.5384, 2.7489). He served with the 5th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Division. His remains were not recovered at that time and thus his name is currently on the Vimy Memorial. This image has also been submitted for each of Ernest Hooper and Norman Heath.
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Page 18 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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