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Note: Canadian Soldiers of World War I, 1914-1918 Name: William Keys
RESIDENCE: Guelph, Ontario
Birth Date: 20 Feb 1882
Birth Location: Enniskillen, Ireland
Relative: Alice Keys
Relationship: Wife
Regiment Number: 334875
------------------------------ In memory of
Gunner WILLIAM KEYS Age: 35
who died on July 7, 1917
Military Service: Service Number: 334875
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Garrison Artillery
Division: 3rd Div. Ammunition Col.
Additional Information:
Date of Birth: February 20, 1882
Son of Wm. John and Mary Keys, of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland; husband of Alice Keys, of 297, Woolwich St., Guelph, Ontario.
Commemorated on Page 268 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Burial Information:
Cemetery: ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais,France
Location: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.
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