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Military service
Service number:
57780
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
December 21, 1895
Enlistment:
Barrie, Ontario
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Emerson Armstrong
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Circumstances of Death
Private Emerson Armstrong's Death Certificate. -
Street sign
Barrie street named in honour of Private Emerson Armstrong with a poppy. -
Photo of Emerson Armstrong
Pte. Emerson Armstrong, 57780, 20th Battalion, CEF, Died September 15, 1916 in the Battle of Moquet -
Cenotaph
Barrie, Ontario -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Inscription
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Barrie Examiner c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Emerson Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private Emerson Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private Emerson Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private Emerson Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private Emerson Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private Emerson Armstrong
Digital gallery of
Private Emerson Armstrong
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 47 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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