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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Sapper Vance Alton Hemeon
Date of Birth:
June 3, 1890
Place of Birth:
Salem, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Place of Enlistment:
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Date of Enlistment:
March 6, 1916
Age at enlistment:
26
Height:
5 Feet 6 Inches
Chest:
35 Inches
Religion:
Baptist
Address at Enlistment:
731 Seventh Street, Medicine Hat Alberta
Trade:
Merchant
Marital Status:
Single
Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Battalion:
4th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
Company
Coy D
Regimental Number:
696478
Died:
December 12, 1917
(reported missing November 30, 1917; admitted to hospital December 2, 1917
"died of wounds" (Gun shot wounds in chest and left arm) at No.55 Casualty Clearing Station.
Age at Death:
27
Cemetery:
Tincourt New British Cemetery, France
Grave Reference:
IV. B. 31.
Commemorated on Page 254 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Additional Inforamtion:
Son of Wentworth and Annie B. Hemeon, of Salem, Nova Scotia.
Sapper Vance Alton Hemeon
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The villages of Tincourt and Boucly were occupied by British troops in March 1917,
during the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line From the following May until
March 1918, Tincourt became a centre for Casualty Clearing Stations. On the 23rd
March 1918, the villages were evacuated and they were recovered, in a ruined
condition, about the 6th September. From that month to December 1918, Casualty
Clearing Stations were again posted to Tincourt.
The cemetery was begun in June 1917, and used until September 1919; the few
German burials, during their occupation of the village, are in Plot VI, Row A. After
the Armistice it was used for the reburial of soldiers found on the battlefield, or
buried in small French or German cemeteries.There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-
18 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. Of these, over 250 are
unidentified and special memorials are erected to seven soldiers from the United
Kingdom and one from Australia, known or believed to be buried among them.
Other special memorials record the names of 21 soldiers from the United
Kingdom, two from Canada, one from Australia and one from South Africa, buried
in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. There are 151
German burials here, 7 being unidentified.
(click to enlarge documents) Attestation Papers
(click link to see additional information)
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cef/4001-5000/4242-22.pdf