Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Ernest Alfred Insley
In memory of:
Private Ernest Alfred Insley
April 9, 1917
Military Service
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Army
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
3rd Coy. 2nd Bn.
Additional Information
March 15, 1892
Son of Thomas Bernard and Edith Annie Insley, of Worcester, England.
Commemorated on Page 261 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. D. 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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Memorial – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Photo of ERNEST ALFRED INSLEY – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper Clipping
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