Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Arthur Lewis
In memory of:
Sergeant Arthur Lewis
February 7, 1917
Military Service
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Army
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Additional Information
December 19, 1889
Son of Richard and Carrie Lewis, of Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, Wales. Served three years in American Army and in the Mexican Campaign.
Commemorated on Page 274 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
IV. C. 24.
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.
Digital Collection
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Details
Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Details
Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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