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Military service
Service number:
7076
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1st Battalion
Birth:
April 12, 1894
Death:
July 1, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
N. 337.
Additional information
Son of Alexander Fraser Pirie and Hester Emma Pirie, of Dundas, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
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Memorial plaque
Goldwin Pirie's Bronze Memorial Medal. Issued to next-of-kin. -
Photo of Goldwin Pirie
Goldwin Pirie at around 12 years. Photo taken in Dundas, Ontario. -
Letter from King
Letter from King George expressing his condolences. -
Goldwin Pirie as a child
Goldwin Pirie as a child. Left to right: Jean Booth Pirie, Russell Fraser Pirie, Elsie Gowan Pirie and Goldwin McCausland Pirie. Dundas, Ontario, circa 1896. -
Royal Victoria Hospital
Netley (Royal Victoria Hospital) in Southampton, England. Goldie Pirie died here on July 1st, 1915. He was admitted on May 12th. -
S.S. Laurentic
This ship took Goldie Pirie to England for his training at Salisbury Plain. The ship left Quebec City on October 3rd to sail to England as a part of the historic First Contingent. -
Photo of Goldwin McCausland Pirie
Goldwin McCausland Pirie, c. 1914. He was born in Dundas, Ontario and attended Trinity College School in Port Hope. He was working at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1914 when he volunteered to join the 1st Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.). As a member of the 1st battalion, he was in reserve with the 4th battalion when the Canadians faced the chlorine gas attack on April 22, 1915 near Ypres. The 1st and 4th battalions made a heroic counterattack at 5:25 am on the following morning towards Mauser Ridge. Casualties were high. Goldwin Pirie was wounded in the charge and was eventually evacuated for care to Netley Hospital in England. He died of his wounds on July 1, 1915. He was popular and talented - a star rugby player at Trinity College School, and also played tennis. He wrote many letters back to Canada while he was at Salisbury Plain training camp in England and some of these were published in local papers. -
Photo of Goldwin McCausland Pirie in uniform
This card received in Dundas Ontario during the first Christmas of the war bears the only photo of Goldwin Pirie in uniform. -
Newspaper clipping
Article published in The Dundas Star newspaper on July 8th, 1915. -
Newspaper photo
Photograph of Pte. Goldwin M. Pirie published in The Dundas Star newspaper on July 8th, 1915. -
War Memorial
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan). -
Inscription
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Photo of Goldwin McCausland Pirie
In memory of the employees from the Canadian Bank Of Commerce (CIBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of GOLDWIN MCCAUSLAND PIRIE
From Volume 1 of Letters From The Front produced by the Canadian Bank of Commerce. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
Digital gallery of
Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
Digital gallery of
Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
Digital gallery of
Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
Digital gallery of
Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
Digital gallery of
Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
Digital gallery of
Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 32 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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