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Son of John and Mary Bryon, of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Private Percy Roy Bryon
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
Cap Badge 15th Bn CEF submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. dileas Gu Brath
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn CEF submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. dileas Gu Brath
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
Record of Service Card (front side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
Record of Service Card (reverse side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
Cap Badge 37th Bn. Private Bryon enlisted with the 37th Bn but was sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt(ret'd) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
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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Private Percy Roy Bryon
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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Private Percy Roy Bryon
From the London Free Press May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Percy Roy Bryon
Pte. Percy Roy Bryon with his best friend, Pte. John Weir, on June 7, 1915 in Durham,Ontario before they left for the war. Both enlisted together, served together, and died together on Sept 26, 1916 at the Battle of Thiepval Ridge.
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Roy Bryon
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Roy Bryon
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Cap Badge 15th Bn CEF submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. dileas Gu Brath
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Shoulder Patch 15th Bn CEF submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. dileas Gu Brath
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Record of Service Card (front side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (reverse side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Cap Badge 37th Bn. Private Bryon enlisted with the 37th Bn but was sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt(ret'd) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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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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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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From the London Free Press May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Pte. Percy Roy Bryon with his best friend, Pte. John Weir, on June 7, 1915 in Durham,Ontario before they left for the war. Both enlisted together, served together, and died together on Sept 26, 1916 at the Battle of Thiepval Ridge.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 60 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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