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Military service
Service number:
690265
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
116TH Bn.
Birth:
August 4, 1889
Enlistment:
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 25, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. N. 7.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Anne Barlow, of Liverpool, England.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Barlow
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Paris War Memorial
An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR.<P> The original monument included lamps styled as flames on the posts at either side of the central Cross. An outer pair of monuments were added at a later date in honour of the Paris men who fell in the Second World War. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bark to Bazinet. Mircoform Sequence 6; Volume Number 31829_B016716. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 150. Page 105 of 1058. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Barlow
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Barlow
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Barlow
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Barlow
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 196 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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