Name/Title
1917 - 6 September - Original framed medal group, Pembroke ON medal, and Memorial Plaque named to 177682 Private Max Albert Luloff - 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards) CEF who was killed in action while serving with the 1st Battalion CEF in France.Scope and Content
Part of the Lieutenant Michael A. Hayes-Rivet (MHR) Trust Collection
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1917 - 6 September - Original framed medal group, Pembroke ON medal, and Memorial Plaque named to 177682 Private Max Albert Luloff - 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards) CEF who was killed in action while serving with the 1st Battalion CEF in France.
ABOUT THIS CGG SOLDIER
LULOFF, MAX ALBERT (1896–1917), Private 177682 — 87th Battalion CGG / 1st Battalion CEF — Killed in Action
Eganville, Ontario
Private Max Albert Luloff was born at Eganville, Ontario, on 7 December 1896, the son of Albert Luloff and the late Teresa Weber Luloff. A single Presbyterian employed as a labourer, he enlisted at Pembroke, Ontario, on 17 November 1915. He had no previous military service.
Luloff was an original member of the 87th Battalion, Canadian Grenadier Guards. He appears with No. 13 Platoon on page 40 of the battalion’s 1916 Photographic Record and Souvenir. He departed Halifax with the battalion aboard the Empress of Britain on 23 April 1916 and arrived at Liverpool on 4 May. On 19 June, before the 87th Battalion entered combat as a unit, he was transferred as a reinforcement to the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion, joining it in France on 21 June 1916. Library and Archives Canada service file Veterans Affairs Canada memorial
On 7–8 September 1916, Private Luloff suffered a gunshot wound to the hip. He was evacuated to Queen Alexandra Military Hospital at Millbank, London, and subsequently underwent convalescence in England. After recovering and serving temporarily with Canadian reserve and convalescent establishments, he returned to the D Company, 1st Battalion in France in May 1917.
Private Luloff was killed by German shellfire near Lens in the St. Laurent Sector during the night of 6–7 September 1917. The 1st Battalion war diary records that enemy shells struck the paths around battalion headquarters and the battalion’s ration parties. Luloff of D Company and two other soldiers were killed, while eighteen other ranks were wounded. 1st Battalion war diary
Official casualty records give his date of death as 6 September 1917 shortly after the Battle of Hill 70, although the incident appears in the war diary entry for 7 September—probably reflecting the timing of the nighttime bombardment or a clerical difference. He was twenty years old.
Private Max Albert Luloff is buried in Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery, British Extension, France, Grave IV.F.5.Created By
Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.Create Date
September 5, 2026Updated By
Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.Update Date
September 30, 2026
