Henry Julian Dove - St Mary - Langham, Essex
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A brass memorial plaque to Henry Julian Dove, killed in action June 1916.
Waymark Code: WMZW0A
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/11/2019
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A brass memorial plaque to Henry Julian Dove, killed in action June 1916. The memorial consists of a plain rectangular plaque with incised inscription.
The inscription reads -
In Loving memory of
HENRY JULIAN DOVE
Born 15th July 1893 - only son
of Charles Henry & Ethel Dove.
He served in the Great War
as a private of the 10th Canadian Inf.y
and gave his life for his country
Before Ypres on 15th June 1916
"Military Service:
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Service Number:
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435316
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Age:
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22
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Force:
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Army
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Unit:
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Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
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Division:
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10th Bn.
Additional Information:
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Born:
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July 15, 1893
Only son of Ethel Dove (now Page), of Victoria, British Columbia, and the late Charles Dove, of Langham Hall, Colchester, England.
Commemorated on Page 79 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Burial Information:
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Cemetery:
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LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY , Belgium
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Grave Reference:
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VIII. A. 18."
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"Private, 10th Infantry Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Service no. 435316. Killed in action, 15th June 1916, aged 22. Buried in Grave VIII.A.18, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium
Henry Julian Dove was born at Blackheath, Kent, in 1894, the son of Charles Henry and Ethel (née Chapman, on remarriage Page) Dove. Charles Henry Dove was the son of Henry Draper and Susan Dove (née Lawrence) of Langham Hall. Henry Draper Dove (d. 1891), Susan Dove (d. 1895) and Charles Henry Dove (d.1900) are buried in St Mary's Churchyard, Langham. Charles Henry Dove's widow, Ethel, remarried and emigrated with their son Henry Julian and her second husband to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, whence Henry Julian enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Henry Julian Dove died while his battalion was consolidating positions in the Mount Sorrel-Observatory Ridge sector of the Ypres Salient following a ferocious enemy attack which had initially overcome the Canadian defences. He is commemorated on a plaque in St Mary's Church, Langham, as is his uncle, Frank Dove, Royal Army Medical Corps (b. 1867, d.1902)."
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