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Major Alfred James Ansley
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Major Alfred James Ansley
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Major Alfred James Ansley
Brother, Son & Uncle. Alf age 33.
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Major Alfred James Ansley
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me.
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Major Alfred James Ansley
L to R
FR: Ian Cameron KIA, Ewen Haldane KIA
MR: E. W. Haldenby, C. E Bent CO, W. Mavor, Alfred Ansley KIA
BR: Futcher, Shaw, ?
In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me.
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Major Alfred James Ansley
15th Bn cap badge. Photo by BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team..
DILEAS GU BRATH
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Major Alfred James Ansley
Shoulder Flashes worn by 15th Bn CEF submitted by Capt (retired) V Goldman 15th Bn Memorial Project
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Major Alfred James Ansley
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Major Alfred James Ansley
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Major Alfred James Ansley
Cap badge 37th Bn. Major Ansley enlisted with this unit but was sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by the 15th Bn Memorial Project Team.
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Major Alfred James Ansley
15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) Memorial located in the village of Courcelette, France. The memorial commemorates the unit’s actions on 26 September 1916 when they attacked Regina Trench during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge. The memorial honours all members of the unit who took part in the Somme offensive of 1916. Submitted by the 15th Bn Memorial Project Team.
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Major Alfred James Ansley
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Major Alfred James Ansley
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.
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Major Alfred James Ansley
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.
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Major Alfred James Ansley
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Brother, Son & Uncle. Alf age 33.
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In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me.
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L to R FR: Ian Cameron KIA, Ewen Haldane KIA MR: E. W. Haldenby, C. E Bent CO, W. Mavor, Alfred Ansley KIA BR: Futcher, Shaw, ? In memory of the members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who went to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the 48th Highlanders Museum, 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, ON M5J 1W9 Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me.
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15th Bn cap badge. Photo by BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Shoulder Flashes worn by 15th Bn CEF submitted by Capt (retired) V Goldman 15th Bn Memorial Project
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Cap badge 37th Bn. Major Ansley enlisted with this unit but was sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by the 15th Bn Memorial Project Team.
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15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) Memorial located in the village of Courcelette, France. The memorial commemorates the unit’s actions on 26 September 1916 when they attacked Regina Trench during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge. The memorial honours all members of the unit who took part in the Somme offensive of 1916. Submitted by the 15th Bn Memorial Project Team.
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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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.
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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.
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 47 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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