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Horace Marchant Vitler 1892-1916
 
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Horace Marchant Vitler

 


 

 

 


Private Horace Marchant Vitler
of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
died on 18 September 1916, aged 23

He is remembered with honour
 at  Puchevillers British Cemetery, France

 

 
   

In June 1916, just before the opening of the Battles of the Somme, the 3rd and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Puchevillers. Plots I to V, and almost the whole of Plot VI were made by those hospitals before the end of March 1917. For the next two months the 2nd/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station used the cemetery. Plot VII contains for the most part the graves of men who died in the German advance in 1918, many of whom were buried by the 49th Clearing Station in March 1918, or by the 48th Labour Group in August. Puchevillers British Cemetery contains 1,763 First World War burials. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Casualty information reproduced by kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission