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Lieutenant Benjamin Clifford Pierce

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1890-11-05
Place of birth: Cape Ozo Gaspe Quebec Canada
Next of kin: Barry Pierce (father,) 58 Victoria Street, Kingston, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Dominion Land Surveyor
Occupation (normalized): Draughtsman, General
Address: 58 Victoria Street, Kingston, Ontario
Religion: Methodist
Date of death: 1917-04-09
Cause of death: Killed in action
Buried: Ecoivres Military Cemetery, VI. E. 13.

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank: Lieutenant
Rank detail
  1. Private (Army).
  2. Lieutenant (Army).
  3. Lieutenant (Army). 1916-02-03 ?
  4. Lieutenant (Army). 1916-06-18 to 1917-04-09
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Vimy Ridge. See details below

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 65937
LAC ID: 574319
Attestation record(s): image 1
Service file: B7820-S018
Uploader's Notes:

Son of Rev. Barry Pierce (Methodist Minister) and Catherine H. Pierce, of Kingston, Ontario. B.Sc., D.L.S. and O.L.S., Graduate of Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. Enlisted October, 1915, and appointed to the 59th Battalion. Drafted to France June, 1916, and transferred to the 4th C.M.R.

Previous Military Experience

Active in the 46th Durham militia at the time he enlisted. He had also served 5 months with No. 5 Company, Canadian Field Engineers.

Details of Death

He was in command of No. 1 Platoon, “A” Company, at about 9.30 a.m., on April 9th, 1917, in the attack on Vimy Ridge, and was directing consolidating operations on the edge of La Folie Farm, near “Cable” House when he was shot through the head by a rifle bullet and killed.

Uploader's Research notes:

Source: The 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 1914 - 1919 (1926, Captain S.G.Bennett

War Diaries

Nominal Rolls - broken link

Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948" database

[Not Specified Army Canadian Engineers Canadian Engineers 5th Field Company - Kingston, Ontario Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 46th Durham Regiment Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 59th Battalion Lieutenant Army Canadian Mounted Rifles 4th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles "A" Company ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-08-28