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Reuben Walter Kramer

In memory of:

Private Reuben Walter Kramer

September 22, 1918
Inchy-en-Artois, France

Military Service


Service Number:

3314342

Age:

24

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

24th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

September 17, 1894
Humberstone, Welland, Ontario

Enlistment:

January 23, 1918
Niagara Falls, Ontario

Son of Frank Kramer and Wilhelmina « Minnie » Seeman (deceased in 1910), of Humberstone, Ontario.

Soon after his arrival in France, he was part of a group of Anglophones who, on 6 September 1918, were transferred by error to the 22nd Battalion. On September 14, he was then re-transferred to the 24th Battalion, an Anglophone unit, and one week later, he was killed in action.

Commemorated on Page 443 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

B. 16.

Location:

Queant is a village 19 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is on the western outskirts of the village on the west side of the road to Riencourt-les-Cagnicourt.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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