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Military service
Service number:
192840
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
January 9, 1886
Death:
May 5, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 13.
Additional information
Husband of Ethel Durrant, of 915, Carlaw Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Joseph Durrant
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Press Clipping
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Cap Badge
Cap Badge 29th Bn (Vancouver Regiment). Pte Durrant enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the 29th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Shoulder Patch
Shoulder Patch 29th Bn (Vancouver Regiment). Pte Durrant enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the 29th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Cap Badge
Cap Badge 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Private Durrant enlisted in the 92nd Bn but was transferred to the 29th Bn (Vancouver Regiment) as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V.Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Photo of GEORGE JOSEPH DURRANT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Joseph Durrant
Digital gallery of
Private George Joseph Durrant
Digital gallery of
Private George Joseph Durrant
Digital gallery of
Private George Joseph Durrant
Digital gallery of
Private George Joseph Durrant
Digital gallery of
Private George Joseph Durrant
Digital gallery of
Private George Joseph Durrant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 232 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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