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In memory of:

Private Arthur Loyer

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Military service

Service number: 1012039
Age: 20
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division: 2nd Bn.
Birth: October 14, 1897 Clarkstown (Eastview), Ontario
Enlistment: March 31, 1916 Hull, Outaouais, Québec
Death: October 1, 1918 Sancourt, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. A. 21.
Additional information
Baptized Joseph-Maxime-Arthur Loyer. Son of Félix Loyer and Julie Hamelin, of Eastview (Ottawa), Ontario. He had declared to be born in 1896 when he enlisted.

When he arrived in France he was assigned to the 22nd Battalion but he never joined the unit as such.

After three months in the Canadian Corps reinforcement camp, he was attached on February 26th, 1918, to the 5th Brigade's machine gun company. Then, a month later, he was transferred from the strength of the 22nd Battalion to the 2nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 451 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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