Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Albert Henry Morrison
In memory of:
Gunner Albert Henry Morrison
July 5, 1917
Vimy Village, France
Military Service
304592
22
Army
Canadian Field Artillery
9th Bde.
Additional Information
November 26, 1894
Amherst, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
December 15, 1915
Kingston, Ontario
Son of Jeanette Mackay Morrison and Kenneth John Morrison, of Nova Scotia. Gunner Morrison lost his father, as a passenger on the "Lusitania," torpedoed 7 May 1915.
Commemorated on Page 297 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
V. K. II.
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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Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Iain McHenry.
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