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HISTORY
of 13 days of fighting, the Canadians suffered 1,373
casualties. Edward was reported as killed in action by his
commanding Officer on April 10 in an attack north of
Courcelette. His body was never found amidst the mud
and water.
He is honoured at the Menin Gate Memorial, situated at
the eastern side of the town of Yprés (now Leper). It bears
the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace
during the defence of the Yprés Salient. Over the two
staircases leading from the Main Hall is the inscription,
‘Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell
in Yprés Salient but to whom the fortune of war denied
the known and honoured burial given to their comrades
in death.’
John Argue Hemphill
John (Sept. 18, 1895-July 31, 1923) served in the Canadian
war effort under the Military Services Act. Once in
England, he was transferred to the 58th Battalion, and
saw action during the Canadian Corps’ Hundred Days
Offensive, which led to the end of the war.
A month before the armistice, John suffered shrapnel
wounds to his back, a serious injury for which he was
hospitalized for months afterward, and left with a
permanent disability. A blacksmith by trade, the wound
affected his livelihood after the war. He drowned in Wilcox
Lake, near Ceylon, as he went to help a young couple in
distress. The lake deepened suddenly, and unable to swim
due in part to his war injury, he went under.
He was well known and respected in his community,
and his funeral was one of the largest to that time in the
Ceylon area.
James Henry Hall
James (Jan. 17, 1895-?) was a member of one of the
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