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In memory of
Private
 WILLIAM JAMES  KIDD
who died on August 15, 1917

Military Service:

Service Number: 424169
Age: 28
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division: 5th Bn.

Additional Information:

Date of Birth: September 24, 1889
Son of Thomas and Jane Kidd, of Medora, Manitoba. Native of Smith Falls, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 268 of the
First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Burial Information:

Cemetery:
MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY
Nord,France

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Grave Reference: III. M. 18.

Location:Maroc is a cemetery located in the village of Grenay which is about 15 kilometres south-east of Bethune. From Lens take the N43 towards Bethune. After Loos-en-Gohelle turn left (after the petrol station) and follow straight on. The MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY is a few kilometres on the right side of the road, in the village.

The Cemetery was begun by French troops in August, 1915, but it was first used as a British Cemetery by the 47th (London) Division in January, 1916. During the greater part of the War it was a front-line cemetery, protected from enemy observation by a slight rise in the ground, and used by fighting units and Field Ambulances. Plot II was begun in April, 1917, by the 46th (North Midland) Division. By the middle of October, 1918, Plot III, Row A and part of Row B, had been filled; and the remainder of Plot III and the ends of certain rows in Plot I contain the remains of soldiers buried on the battlefields, or in small cemeteries, North and East of Grenay, and brought in after the Armistice. The 8th Canadian Battalion erected a wooden memorial in the cemetery to their officers and men who fell in the Battle of Hill 70 (East of Loos) on the 15th August, 1917.


Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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