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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
114186
Age:
39
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
July 27, 1878
Ostend, Belgium
Enlistment:
August 16, 1915
Camp Sewell, Manitoba
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXVIII. H. I.
Additional information
Spouse of Augusta Verhaeghe of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Additional citations
British war Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Richard Verhaeghe
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Grave marker
Picture from 4 January. Visiting the front with FB group WERELDOORLOG 1914. Our guide tells us the story of Richard Verhaeghe. He is the only Belgian ( Belgian / Canadian) soldier who is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery. -
Cemetery
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
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Other
Medal Citation for Military Medal from Library and Archive Canada via "Ancestry"
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Verhaeghe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Verhaeghe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Verhaeghe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Verhaeghe
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Richard Verhaeghe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 343 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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