PRIVATE HERBERT HORACE ATTEWELL
52ND BTTN CANADIAN INFANTRY
9TH JULY 1916 AGE
BURIED: BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE
Private Attewell's wife Elizabeth chose his inscription; it comes from the first line of a very popular evening hymn, which is still one of the most popular of all hymns today:
The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended,
The darkness falls at Thy behest;
To Thee our morning hymns ascended,
Thy praise shall hallow now our rest.
Attewell, a plasterer, was born in England, as was his wife. They married in England in 1904 but by the time their son Wilfred Cecil was born in 1913 they were living in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Attewell volunteered in Ontario in September 1915, served with the 52nd Battalion Canadian Infantry and died of wounds at a field ambulance dressing station on 9 July 1916.