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Military service
Service number:
413117
Age:
43
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
September 20, 1872
Edinburgh, Scotland
Enlistment:
April 30, 1915
Belleville, Ontario
Death:
July 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Spouse of Auguste L. Heron of Port Hope, Ontario. Private Heron was engaged on a work party setting up wire entanglements when a mine explosion set off by the enemy caused his death.
Digital gallery of Private George Heron
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Memorial Cross (Obverse)
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Memorial Cross (Reverse)
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Photo of George Heron
Book of Remembrance (A record of the men of Port Hope who participated in the Great War of 1914-1918)" by James A. Elliott, Chairman of Committee, Port Hope, Jan 1, 1919 (Transcribed by Peter Bolton 2001) -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private George Heron
Digital gallery of
Private George Heron
Digital gallery of
Private George Heron
Digital gallery of
Private George Heron
Digital gallery of
Private George Heron
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 102 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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