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Persoonsgegevens
- COMPTON
- HB
- HENRY B
- Bangor
- Wales
- postal clerk
Militaire dienst
- 23 October 1914, Regina
- 73741
- Private
- D C M
- 28th Bn. North West (Saskatchewan) Regiment
- 6th Brigade
- 2nd Canadian Division
- C.E.F.
- DCM for conspicious braver on 8 October 1915 : "The enemy exploded mines and Compton was buried under the debris. Being dug out, he immediately volunteered to go forward as a member of a bombing party, and assisted in bombing the enemy from the crater in which they were advancing. He also assisted, under heavy shell and machine gun fire, to dig out four men buried by the explosion thus helping to save their lives." (London Gazette, 29 November 1915)
Overlijden
- Died of shrapnel wounds in n°10 CCS
- 8 June 1916
- 26
- VII - C - 11
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