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.
