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Military service
Service number:
136621
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
September 7, 1887
Kent, England
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 8, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. D. 5.
Additional information
Husband of Eliza Boorman of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private James Richard Boorman
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Newspaper Clipping
James Boorman is on the top right. He is listed with the wrong name. From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Sons of England War Memorial
Designed by Charles Adamson in bronze and granite, the Sons of England war memorial is located on University Avenue at Elm Street in Toronto. The inscription on this 1923 Memorial reads: ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO DISTRICTS SONS OF ENGLAND BENEFIT SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR. -
Close up of Sons of England War Memorial
James Richard Boorman's name is included on the SOE War Memorial. -
Todmorden Sons of England (SOE) war memorial
Memorial Tablet located at St. Barnabas Church, Danforth Avenue, Toronto. Erected by the Sons of England Benefit Society, Todmorden Lodge No. 298. Unveiled on August 21, 1920. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Grave marker
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Newspaper clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JAMES RICHARD BOORMAN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Richard Boorman
Digital gallery of
Private James Richard Boorman
Digital gallery of
Private James Richard Boorman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 204 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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