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Son of C. Stanley and Edith C. Pettit, of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
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Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
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Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
1914-18 Memorial Plaque, The University Schools, University of Toronto, 371
Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario. Erected by the U.T.S. Hockey Club,
1919-20.
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Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: "IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE", and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: "And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content."
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Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
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Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
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Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
Aura Lee Club Toronto
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Gunner Paul Weagant Pettit
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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1914-18 Memorial Plaque, The University Schools, University of Toronto, 371 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario. Erected by the U.T.S. Hockey Club, 1919-20.
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World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: "IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE", and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: "And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content."
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
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Aura Lee Club Toronto
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 485 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
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