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Richard Ernest Groves
In memory of:
Private Richard Ernest Groves
March 27, 1917
Military Service
116639
20
Army
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Additional Information
April 12, 1896
Dorchester, Dorset, England
November 1, 1915
Vernon, British Columbia
Son of Ernest and Frances Mary Groves, of Armstrong, British Columbia. Brother of Florence and Winnifred and Corporal John Stiby Groves, Canadian Signal Corps, killed 17 January 1916.
Commemorated on Page 248 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
IV. H. 26.
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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Details
Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Details
Photo of Richard Ernest Groves – Private Richard Ernest Groves (Courtesy of 'So Far From Home, Armstrong's Fallen of the Great War', Leonard J. Gamble, Author)
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