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Ritchie Garland

In memory of:

Private Ritchie Garland

December 20, 1916

Military Service


Service Number:

488797

Age:

20

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

Division:

9th Coy.

Additional Information


Son of George and Bessie Garland, of Woodside, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Commemorated on Page 90 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

IV. A. 5.

Location:

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.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Halifax Evening Mail January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Halifax Evening Mail January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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