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In memory of
Captain ELPHINSTONE FORREST MATHER
who died on April 9, 1918
Military Service .....
Age - 29
Force - Army
Unit - Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division - 8th Bn.
Additional Information -
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mather, of Glasgow, Scotland - husband of Kate E. Mather, of Vancouver. Editor of the "Winnipeg Telegram" prior to enlisting in 44th Bn. C.E.F., 1915. Passed Cambridge Staff College course with honours, 1917.
Commemorated on Page 468 of the
First World War Book of Remembrance.
Burial Information ..........
Cemetery -
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais,France
Grave Reference: 1917. VI. L. 11.
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.
Annie