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Military service
Service number:
541334
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 44th Bn.
Birth:
June 2, 1895
Death:
October 14, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Douglas Stanley and Susan Ellen Hewitt, of 8, Golden Avenue, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
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Biography
In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of PERCY DOUGLAS HEWITT
In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
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Inscription
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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of PERCY DOUGLAS HEWITT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Douglas Hewitt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 102 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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