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Hamel, R S



Ploegsteert Memorial

Ploegsteert Memorial

12km south of Ieper (Ypres) in Belgium

Robert Sydney Hamel

 

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Robert Sydney Hamel

Second Lieutenant Robert Sydney Hamel
1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
12/04/1918

Son of Alfred James Hamel and Ada Maria Hamel (nee Chapple), of Doulieu, 19, Paris St., Guernsey. Student at St. John's College, Battersea, London. Enlisted in 18th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, Sept., 1915. Gazetted to Royal Guernsey Light Inf., Oct., 1917.

Killed in action at Doulieu, aged 23 years.

 

Portrait photograph courtesy of David de Garis