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Herbert Norman Canning

In memory of:

Private Herbert Norman Canning

March 27, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

552993

Age:

29

Force:

Army

Unit:

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

Division:

"D" Coy. P.P.C.L.I.

Additional Information

Born:

April 25, 1887

Son of James and Harriet Canning, of Liverpool, England.

Commemorated on Page 213 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:

IV. H. 18.

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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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Circumstances of Death Registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 47 of 1004.

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    Circumstances of Death Registers
    Circumstances of Death Registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 47 of 1004.
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Daily Colonist of April 10, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y103uvic#page/n0/mode/1up

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    Newspaper Clipping – From the Daily Colonist of April 10, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y103uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
  • Newspaper Clipping– Pte. Herbert Norman Canning was born in Liverpool, England. He enlisted in Calgary, Alberta, on April 4th, 1916. In honoured memory.

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    Newspaper Clipping – Pte. Herbert Norman Canning was born in Liverpool, England. He enlisted in Calgary, Alberta, on April 4th, 1916. In honoured memory.

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