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Military service
Service number:
219816
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
July 19, 1890
Edinburgh, Scotland
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Pte Irvine attested that Mrs. Benjamin Kerr, of Perth, Ontario, was his sister and closest next of kin. He enlisted in the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 75th Battalion. Pte Irvine could possibly be the Thomas Irvine who sailed from Scotland on the S.S. Corinthian at the age of 13 in 1904, destination Brockville, Ontario under the Dr. Barnardo's Home Children Program. Information courtesy of Merrickville Memorial Project, May 2002.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas John Irvine
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Memorial Page
Thomas John Irvine is honoured on page 16 of the <i>Merrickville Remembers</i> booklet, published in January 2003. -
Merrickville Remembers
This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War. -
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) -
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) -
Circumstances of death registers
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Badge
British home child badge -
Roll of Honour
British home child honour roll -
Memorial
British home child memorial -
Roll of Honour
British home child honour roll -
Memorial
Thomas Irvine British home child
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas John Irvine
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 261 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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