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Military service
Service number:
349113
Age:
29
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
2nd Bde.
Birth:
September 25, 1887
Death:
August 23, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. G. 12.
Additional information
Son of John Douglas and Cecilia Storey, his wife, of 424, Marion St., Toronto.
Digital gallery of Gunner Grant Douglas
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Photo
In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Biography
In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Osgoode Hall War Memorial
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Press Clipping
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The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of Gnr. G. Douglas is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, 2010. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 471 of 1076. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
Digital gallery of
Gunner Grant Douglas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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