SOLDIER DETAILS:
Hamman,
Edward Charles
Private, 5th Infantry Battalion 13749
May 24, 1915
Vimy
Memorial
Family from Campbellville (Milton) ON
Maple
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Haltonville Cenotaph
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Book of Remembrance
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Private
Mamman is memorialized on the Haltonville Cenotaph and
the Vimy Memorial. His name is given in the Book of
Remembrance.
The Milton Soldiers on the Vimy
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Private Edward Hamman was born and raised in
Campbellville (now Milton) Ontario in 1886. His attestation
papers and
number 13749 show that he attested to the 5th
Canadian Infantry Battalion (1st Division, 2nd Brigade). His
records show that he enlisted within weeks of the start of the
war (16th Light Horse - 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles) in
August 1914. On or about September 1914, this became the
5th Infantry Battalion. He was hospitalized overseas with appendicitis
in April 1915 and was killed in action a month later on May 24,
1915.
In May 1915 the CEF was involved in the Battle
of Festubert, only a few short weeks after near devastation
at the 2nd Battle of Ypres. The war diary for May
24, 1915 shows that 4 Officers, 11 NCOs and 30 Other Ranks
were killed that day (Bethune, Festubert) - south of Ypres,
north of the Artois Plateau (Arras). A further 8 Officers, 30
NCOs and 174 men were wounded. Appendix
A to the September war diary details the horrors of that
attack. The reference to the attack at K5 by the 5th Battalion
is detailed on page 102 of Nicholson, Chapter
IV. Little was gained for the losses experienced. |
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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