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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Arthur Sands

In memory of:

Corporal Arthur Sands

August 8, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

799924

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

Division:

3rd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

August 31, 1894

Commemorated on Page 496 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

I. A. 17.

Location:

Hangard is a village in the Department of the Somme, 5 kilometres south of Villers-Bretonneux, in the valley of the Luce. HANGARD COMMUNAL CEMETERY is a little east of the village on the north side of the road to Demuin and the EXTENSION is on the west side of the Communal Cemetery.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Memorial– Corporal Arthur Sands is remembered on the Sands family memorial located at St. John's (Norway) cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Inscription
  • Grave Marker– Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team.  DILEAS GU BRATH

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