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Military service
Service number:
808040
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
December 30, 1884
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mrs. E. W. Ashton, of 54, Queen's Rd., Bristol, England; husband of Annie M. Ashton, of 566, Michigan St., Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Richard George Ashton
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Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of Richard George Ashton
Richard George Ashton before leaving to serve in World War 1. -
Group photo
This is Annie Mary Close Ashton and her son, Edward George Ashton, who was born June 15, 1916 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father was killed about a year after this photo was taken. Ed's father, Richard George Ashton, died in Belgium when Ed was 17 months old. Richard never saw his son as he was born after he enlisted. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Richard George Ashton
Digital gallery of
Private Richard George Ashton
Digital gallery of
Private Richard George Ashton
Digital gallery of
Private Richard George Ashton
Digital gallery of
Private Richard George Ashton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 193 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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