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Earle Gordon Richards
In memory of:
Lieutenant Earle Gordon Richards
March 30, 1917
Military Service
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Army
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Additional Information
Son of George Richards, of Copetown, Ontario; husband of Alice Isobel Richards, of 61, Erie Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario.
Commemorated on Page 315 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. K. 20.
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 – From the Hamilton Spectator 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Grave Marker – Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
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Photo of Earle Gordon Richards -
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Circumstances of Death
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