Military service
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Son of Mrs. Mary Corbett, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Pte. James Corbett was killed in action in June 1915. He was the son of Mary Corbett of Toronto and was the cousin of William T. Corbett (my grandfather) who was the son of David and Minnie Corbett, also of Toronto.
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 785 of 818.
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
From the Toronto Telegram March 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Pte. James Corbett was killed in action in June 1915. He was the son of Mary Corbett of Toronto and was the cousin of William T. Corbett (my grandfather) who was the son of David and Minnie Corbett, also of Toronto.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 785 of 818.
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From the Toronto Telegram March 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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