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Digital gallery of Private George David Bugg
Digital gallery of
Private George David Bugg
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Brubacher to Bunyan. Mircoform Sequence 15; Volume Number 31829_B016724; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 159 Page 483 of 668
Digital gallery of
Private George David Bugg
Digital gallery of
Private George David Bugg
Private 124055 George David Bugg enlisted in the 70th Battn C.E.F. Machine Gun Section (He was later sent to the 58th Battn.) at London Ont. Oct. 13th 1915 at the age of 33. He listed his occupation as "Teamster" but he was also a wood carver by trade. <P>
George was born in Essex Co. Ontario in 1882. (He listed Augsburg Ont. his mother said Waterloo Ont.) He was killed in action on August 16, 1916 at the age of 34. Photo is ID'ed on the back "My G-Father George Bugg killed in France 1916"
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Private George David Bugg
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)
Digital gallery of
Private George David Bugg
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George David Bugg
George top row left. In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George David Bugg
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George David Bugg
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private George David Bugg
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private George David Bugg
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Brubacher to Bunyan. Mircoform Sequence 15; Volume Number 31829_B016724; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 159 Page 483 of 668
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Private 124055 George David Bugg enlisted in the 70th Battn C.E.F. Machine Gun Section (He was later sent to the 58th Battn.) at London Ont. Oct. 13th 1915 at the age of 33. He listed his occupation as "Teamster" but he was also a wood carver by trade. <P> George was born in Essex Co. Ontario in 1882. (He listed Augsburg Ont. his mother said Waterloo Ont.) He was killed in action on August 16, 1916 at the age of 34. Photo is ID'ed on the back "My G-Father George Bugg killed in France 1916"
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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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In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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George top row left. In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. 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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Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Page 61 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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