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Courtesy of Veterans Affairs Canada
Courtesy of Veterans Affairs Canada
CWM 19990128-002
George Metcalf Archival Collection
Canadian War Museum
CWM 19990128-002 George Metcalf Archival Collection Canadian War Museum
CWM 19990128-008
George Metcalf Archival Collection
Canadian War Museum
CWM 19990128-008 George Metcalf Archival Collection Canadian War Museum
CWM 19990128-008
George Metcalf Archival Collection
Canadian War Museum
CWM 19990128-008 George Metcalf Archival Collection Canadian War Museum
CWM 19920166-2329
CWM 19920166-2329

Corporal

Kane, Robert Andrew

Unit

3rd Field Company

Branch

Canadian Engineers

Service Component

Canadian Expeditionary Force

Service Number

45017

birth

1889/08/28

Westport, Ontario, Canada

death

1915/12/12

Ypres, Belgium

grave

Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium

Gender

Male

Robert Andrew Kane was born in Westport, Ontario, on 28 August 1889. He was the fourth of Thomas and Ellen Kane’s eight children. His father was a farmer.

Kane was a civil engineering student when he enlisted in the Canadian Engineers at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, on 26 September 1914. He had previously served in a militia engineering unit.

After initial training in Canada, Kane travelled to Plymouth, England, with his unit on 3 October 1914 as part of the First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The Contingent trained on Salisbury Plain for four months. Just before it was shipped to France in February 1915, Kane was promoted to the rank of corporal. He died on 12 December 1915, after receiving a gunshot wound to the chest while constructing trenches near Ypres, Belgium.

Robert Andrew Kane is buried in Dranoutre Military Cemetery, in Belgium.

The Canadian War Museum’s Collection includes the following artifacts for this recipient