Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Samuel Otto Irish
In memory of:
Private Samuel Otto Irish
April 14, 1917
Military Service
886472
Army
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
28th Bn.
Additional Information
June 16, 1888
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
VI. F. 6.
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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Cenotaph – Private Samuel Otto Irish is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Cenotaph – Private Samuel Otto Irish is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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