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Henri Hamel
In memory of:
Private Henri Hamel
February 28, 1917
Tranchées de La Folie, Vimy, France
Military Service
416901
23
Army
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
22nd Bn.
Additional Information
November 24, 1893
Howick, Chateauguay, Quebec
March 11, 1915
Montréal, Quebec
Son of Ovide Hamel (deceased in 1898) and Euphrasie Cliche-dit-Jeannot of Montréal, Québec. He stated being born on the 25th when he enlisted.
Brother of Private George Hamel, who died five months earlier while serving with the same unit.
Commemorated on Page 250 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. E. 2.
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 – La Presse - March 15, 1917
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