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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:05 pm Post subject: Lt Alexis Helmer |
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HELMER, ALEXIS HANNUM
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:02/05/1915
Age:22
Regiment/Service:Canadian Field Artillery 1st Bde.
Panel ReferencePanel 10.
MemorialYPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Elizabeth I. Helmer, of 122, Gilmour St., Ottawa, and the late Brig. Gen. R. A. Helmer.
This man's death inspired Lt Col John McCrae to write 'In Flanders Fields'
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