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Military service
Service number:
489803
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
April 11, 1890
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 27, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Millie Ruddy of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Menin Gate
Menin Gate, October 2009, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Panel 10 Menin Gate
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate, August 2012, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave marker
Passchendaele New British Cemetery, 1 May 2019, Plot IX, Row A, Grave 28. This is most likely the grave of Private Walter Lawson Ruddy, though the case was rejected by the CWGC. CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) cefrg.ca -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Lawson Ruddy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 320 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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