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De Guerin, H T



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Howard Thomas de Guerin

Private Howard Thomas de Guerin
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
21/08/1917

Attestation papers

Listed as "Guerin" by CWGC

Commonweath War Graves Commission Record

Son of Hannah Guerin, of Le Friquet, St. Martin's, Guemsey, Channel Islands, and the late Frederick Guerin. 3 years in RGLI before enlisting in Canada in July 1915. Old Elizabethan.

Killed, aged 34 years, during the assault on Hill 70, a high point near Lens, during which CSM Robert Hill Hanna of his battalion won the Victoria Cross.