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Military service
Service number:
6613
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
May 27, 1893
Death:
April 22, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Only son of Mrs. Margaret Somerville, of Toronto. Native of St. Thomas, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Hugh Somerville
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Roll of Honour
Pte. Hugh Somerville's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. He indicated on his military attestation that he was a clerk. He volunteered to serve early in the war and signed his military attestation on September 20th, 1914 at Valcartier Camp, Quebec. He was a member of the historic First Canadian Contingent. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Name on the Roll of Honour
Detail of Pte. Hugh Somerville's name on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh Somerville
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 37 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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