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Hjalti Ogmundson
In memory of:
Gunner Hjalti Ogmundson
June 8, 1917
Military Service
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Army
Canadian Field Artillery
3rd Div. Ammunition Col.
Additional Information
July 18, 1890
Son of Ogmunder Ogmundson and Thorbjorg Gislisdottir of Winnpeg, Manitoba. Brother of Setselja Ogmundson, of Baldur, Manitoba.
Commemorated on Page 303 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. J. 14.
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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Newspaper Clipping – In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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