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Harold Body

In memory of:

Private Harold Body

December 15, 1916

Military Service

Service Number:

475778

Age:

26

Force:

Army

Unit:

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)

Additional Information

Born:

July 31, 1890
Hove, Sussex, England

Son of Mr. J. A. Body, of Park Cottage, East Malling, Kent.

Commemorated on Page 56 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

III. J. 24.

Location:

Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Photo of Harold Body

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    Photo of Harold Body
  • Brighton College Chapel– The Brighton College Chapel West Sussex England. Harold Body was partly educated here and has a memorial panel in the Chapel with others who lost their lives in World War1. With the kind permission of Richard Cairns Headmaster and Mrs Fiona Aiken Administration Brighton College.

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    Brighton College Chapel
    Brighton College Chapel – The Brighton College Chapel West Sussex England. Harold Body was partly educated here and has a memorial panel in the Chapel with others who lost their lives in World War1. With the kind permission of Richard Cairns Headmaster and Mrs Fiona Aiken Administration Brighton College.
  • Brighton College– Brighton College West Sussex England. Private Harold Body was partly educated here, before Emigrating to Canada. with the kind permission of Mr.Richard Cairns Headmaster and Mrs. Fiona Aiken Administration.

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    Brighton College
    Brighton College – Brighton College West Sussex England. Private Harold Body was partly educated here, before Emigrating to Canada. with the kind permission of Mr.Richard Cairns Headmaster and Mrs. Fiona Aiken Administration.
  • Record of Service– Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.

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    Record of Service – Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.
  • Bank of Montreal Memorial– Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.

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    Bank of Montreal Memorial – Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.
  • Photo of Harold Body– From Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.

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    Photo of Harold Body – From Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.
  • Biography– From Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.

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    Biography – From Memorial from the Great War 1914-1918: a record of service published by the Bank of Montreal 1921.

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