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Harry Frank Sare

In memory of:

Major Harry Frank Sare

April 9, 1917

Military Service


Age:

37

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Additional Information


Born:

December 26, 1879
Bath, Somerset, England

Enlistment:

September 29, 1915
Montreal, Quebec

Husband of Helen Chalmers Sare, of Montreal, Quebec. Father of Lt. Colonel Paul Francis Lionel Sare, Royal Canadian Dragoons, who died on October 31, 1952, Korean war veteran.

Commemorated on Page 321 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

VILLERS STATION CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

VIII. A. 14.

Location:

Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of April 18, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y111uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Montreal Star c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Source:  Municipal Review / War Memorials Souvenir Number (Vol. XXI, No. 2).  Municipal Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal, Quebec, 1925.   Major Sare signed his military attestation in Montreal on September 29th, 1915.  He indicated on this form that he worked as an "Asst. to Division Manager" for the Bell Telephone Company.
  • Grave marker
  • Photo of Harry Frank Sare– In memory of the men who served with the 87th Battalion CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Canadian Grenadiars Guards Memorial Book– In memory of the men who served with the 87th Battalion CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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