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Son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. Native of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Lieutenant William Francis Howard Tidswell
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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Lieutenant William Francis Howard Tidswell
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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Lieutenant William Francis Howard Tidswell
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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Lieutenant William Francis Howard Tidswell
Stone Frigate 1914 Royal Military College of Canada
970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell (RMC 1912) was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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Stone Frigate 1914 Royal Military College of Canada 970 Lieut William Francis Howard Tidswell (RMC 1912) was the son of Lt. Col. W. O. Tidswell (Canadian Field Artillery) and of Kate Ethel Tidswell, of 69, Blackburn Avenue, Ottawa, Canada. He was a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, 88th Bde. He died on Oct 31, 1916. He was buried in the Aveluy Communal Cemetery in Somme, France.
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 574 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY Somme, France
Aveluy is a village in the Department of the Somme, immediately north of Albert. The AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY is in the village and the extension is on the south side of it.
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