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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
1057429
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
December 21, 1884
Death:
August 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 17.
Additional information
Son of James J. and Mary J. M. Withey, of Handsworth, Birmingham, England.
Additional citations
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Digital gallery of Private Albert Nightingale Withey
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Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Memorial Stained Glass
World War I memorial stained glass windows (1935) by Charles William Kelsey depicting the St. Stephen the Martyr was installed behind the organ as part of the decorations for the Chapel, Montreal Diocesan Theological College, 3473, rue University, Montreal, QC H3A 2A8 http://www.dio-mdtc.ca/index.htm info@dio-mdtc.ca. The window remembers Albert Withey, D.C.M. of the 24th Canadian Battalion who was killed in Amiens on the 8th of August, 1918. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 525 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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