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Alfred Snow Churchill
In memory of:
Lieutenant Alfred Snow Churchill
April 9, 1917
Military Service
22
Army
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Additional Information
Son of Ezra and Mary N. Churchill, of Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Commemorated on Page 216 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. E. 8.
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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Medal – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of ALFRED SNOW CHURCHILL – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Alfred Snow Churchill – Alfred Snow Churchill, born February 1895, died April 9, 1917 at Vimy Ridge, son of Mary Woolaver and Ezra Churchill, Hantsport, Walton, and Windsor, Nova Scotia -
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Grave Marker – Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
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Biography – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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