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Corporal Arthur Barnard

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Military service

Service number: 47327
Age: 35
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 15th Bn.
Birth: September 1, 1881 East Peckham, Kent, England
Enlistment: September 28, 1914
Death: April 9, 1917

Burial/memorial information

NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY (France)
Grave reference: Arras Road Cem. Mem. 8.
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Son of J.J. Barnard of London, England. After the battle on 9 April, the 15th Battalion Vimy Cross was built with the names of about sixty soldiers from the battalion who were killed in the battle. Today the cross, with Corporal Arthur Barnard's name clearly seen at the exact centre is kept at the 48th Highlanders (15 Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force) museum at St. Andrew's Church in Toronto, Ontario.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 196 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY (France) Pas de Calais, France

Thelus is a village about 6.5 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Lens. The NINE ELMS MILITARY CEMETERY is on the western side of the main road and about 1.5 kilometres south of the village.

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