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Military service
Service number:
642051
Age:
44
Rank:
Bandmaster
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
157th Battalion
Birth:
November 5, 1875
Death:
September 30, 1920
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
290. Block D.
Additional information
Husband of Eva Susan Redditt, of Barrie, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Bandmaster Edgar Gordon Redditt
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Grave Marker
Marker at the grave of Bandmaster Edgar G. Redditt, 157th Battalion (Simcoe Foresters), Canadian Expeditionary Force, in the Barrie Union Cemetery, 338 Sunnidale Road, Barrie, Ontario. Note that the stone shows E. G. Redditt's rank/appointment as RSM (Regimental Sergeant Major), rather than Bandmaster. He died of sickness. A personal message near the bottom of the stone reads: BELOVED HUSBAND OF EVA S. McNEIL 1881-1964. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2015.) -
Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Bandmaster Edgar Gordon Redditt
Digital gallery of
Bandmaster Edgar Gordon Redditt
Digital gallery of
Bandmaster Edgar Gordon Redditt
Digital gallery of
Bandmaster Edgar Gordon Redditt
Digital gallery of
Bandmaster Edgar Gordon Redditt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 553 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BARRIE UNION CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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