03 November 2017

Remember Canadian War Dead: 3 November

The Canadian Virtual War Memorial records the deaths of 408 members of the Canadian Forces on 3 November. Their names can be found here.

152 died in 1917;
141 died in Belgium during the final stages of the Battle of Passchendaele;
118 were serving with the Infantry;
52 with no known grave are commemorated at the Menin Gate at Ypres;
26 were serving with the 21st Battalion, the most of any unit.

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