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Military service
Service number:
109239
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
April 28, 1895
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Jeremiah and Jessie Breen, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Maurice William Breen
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Circumstance of death
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Brabant to Britton. Mircoform Sequence 13; Volume Number 131829_B016722; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 157 Page 423 of 906 -
Newspaper Clipping
Clipping from the Toronto Star for 5 March 1917. -
Newspaper Clipping
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National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of MAURICE WILLIAM BREEN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice William Breen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 58 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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