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Military service
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Enlistment:
United Kingdom
Death:
April 23, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Press clipping
Lt.-Col. A. P. Birchall is depicted in this illustration at the moment he fell during the charge of the 4th Canadian battalion (2nd battle of Ypres). This picture appeared on the cover of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune on July 20th, 1915, and it is entitled: "Come on, boys! Give it to 'em!". The description reads: <br>"This picture, drawn especially for The Tribune, the New York Herald, and the London Sphere, shows the superb charge of the Fourth Canadian Battalion in face of German shell fire at Ypres. Lieutenant Colonel Birchall, carrying a light cane, in accordance with an old custom, fell dead while cheering his men, who charged onward in response to his last words." -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping 2
The death of Lt. Col. Arthur Birchall while leading the 4th Battalion's counterattack was described in many accounts of the 2nd battle of Ypres. -
Press Clipping
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Panel of 4th Bn Casualties on Menin Gate memorial.
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England. -
Inscription
This photo was found in a box full of photograqphica and paper from a Family in Westholme B.C. Canada- Name of Groves. -
Photo of Arthur Birchall
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from Daily Telegraph of April 28, 1915. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11561770/Daily-Telegraph-April-28-1915.html -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail September 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Percival Birchall
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 5 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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