World War I - Casualties
Digby County, Nova Scotia
Wartime Heritage
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Eldon LeRoy Morine
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Eldon LeRoy Morine
283557
Private
Canadian Expeditionary Force
219th Battalion and 85th Battalion
October 10, 1889
Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 26, 1916
Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada
18 and 11 months
5 Feet; 10 ½ inches
fair
blue
light brown
7th Battery Artillery (3 years)
Single
Lumberman
Baptist
Annie Morine (Mother) Bear River, NS
April 9, 1917
26
Canadian Cemetery No. 2, Neuville-St. Vaast, Pas De Calais, France
Eldon departed Halifax October 12, 1916 aboard the SS Olympic and arrived in Liverpool,
England on October 18, 1916. He transferred from the 219th to the 85th Battalion at Camp Witley in the
UK on December 28, 1916. He crossed from England to France via Boulogne February 10, 2017. He was
killed in action on April 9, 1917
Commemorated on Page 297 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on June 29
Listed on the Bear River Memorial