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Military service
Service number:
475757
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Division:
No. 1 Coy.
Birth:
March 16, 1893
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 27, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Clara O. Stevens Ball, of Toronto, and Frank Ball.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Herbert Ball
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - October 2009 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Panel
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Attestation Papers (Front)
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Attestation Papers (Reverse)
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Newspaper Clipping
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Attestation Papers
Charles Herbert Ball and William Wallace MC were cousins through their mothers. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Newspaper article
Globe and Mail, August 7, 1944, article pertaining to a cruel hoax involving Corporal May's mother and brother. -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Globe and Mail March 21, 1918 Caption: Mother of Charles Ball, Mrs. Frank Ball's PPCLI dinner party. -
Newspaper clipping
Source: The Toronto Daily Star Feb. 22, 1924 Caption: Sister of Charles H. Ball, Harriett Mary Ball, marries Colin Alexander Sabiston -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 675 of 1072. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Herbert Ball
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 50 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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