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Military service
Service number:
73187
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
June 18, 1886
Death:
June 6, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVIII. J. 9.
Digital gallery of Private Archibald Somers
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Photo of Archibald Somers
In memory of the men from the 28th Battalion CEF who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Document
The CWGC COG-BR for Hooge Crater Cemetery reports that Private Archibald Somers #73187 was exhumed from the area to the northwest of Hooge Belgium at Map 28 Sector 28.I.18.9.75.99 in September 1919. He was found with Lance Sergeant Guy Keating #73372. The ICRC documents state that Keating drowned in a SAP near Hooge that was constructed to gain access to the enemy front lines. The ICRC document for Somers has no details. The Circumstance of Death for Keating (Somer's was lost) states that the enemy had exploded a mine at that time and then took the ground. Keating and Somers may have been trapped in their SAP when the mine exploded and were thus found together. -
Document
ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) reports that Private Archibald Somers was missing but it has no additional details. We know from the files of his colleague, Lance Sergeant Guy Keating, that they were in a SAP constructed to gain access to the German front lines. The two bodies were found together in September 1919 and are buried together in Plot 18 Row J Grave 9 at the Hooge Crater Cemetery. Note the grave site photo shows two headstones, so it would have been a "Trench Burial". -
Photo of ARCHIBALD SOMERS
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Archibald Somers
Digital gallery of
Private Archibald Somers
Digital gallery of
Private Archibald Somers
Digital gallery of
Private Archibald Somers
Digital gallery of
Private Archibald Somers
Digital gallery of
Private Archibald Somers
Digital gallery of
Private Archibald Somers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 166 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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