Private Howard Thomas de Guerin
29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
21/08/1917

Attestation papers

Listed as "Guerin" by CWGC

Commonwealth 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 (Militia) before enlisting in Canada in July 1915. Old Elizabethan Roll no.2605

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.