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Military service
Service number:
745308
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
116TH Bn.
Birth:
June 26, 1894
Death:
July 23, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Oliver and Isabella Drew, of Cannington, Ontario. Graduate of Faculty of Education, Toronto, and of Queen's University, Kingston.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 909 of 1076. -
Sunderland Ontario War Memorial
Oliver Cecil Drew's name is included on the Sunderland Ontario War Memorial. -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, 2010. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of O. C. Drew is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, shown at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Oliver Cecil Drew
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew 116th Battalion Killed in action July 23,1917 Avion Raid on Fosse 4 Commemorated on Vimy Memorial
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Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Oliver Cecil Drew
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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