We Will Remember Them: Private Hugh McCabe

November 6, 2021
History, News
The graves of 80 RMR’s are laid out together in one row at Nine Elms cemetery, all killed on the assault on Vimy Ridge, 09 April 1917

Westmount, Quebec – 06 November 2021: Inspired by the book “Canada’s Dream Shall Be of Them – Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War,” by Eric McGeer and Steve Douglas, the RMR Foundation will be posting an epitaph each day during the annual Poppy Campaign that runs until 11 November 2021.

“TAKEN AWAY FROM THE EVIL TO COME”

Private Hugh McCabe, 14th Battalion, November 4th 1915 (age 26)

No image of his grave marker is available, here is his listing in the First World War Book of Remembrance (Page 25)

Lest We Forget.

The above epitaphs are extracted from the book “Canada’s Dream Shall Be of Them - Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War,” by Eric McGeer and Steve Douglas, Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont., 2017.
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