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Military service
Service number:
452548
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
March 28, 1885
Orangeville, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 15, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
May 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. David Cornish, of Toronto, Ontario. Husband of Agnes H. Cornish of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Angus Cornish
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 165 of 900. -
Sons of England War Memorial
Designed by Charles Adamson in bronze and granite, the Sons of England war memorial is located on University Avenue at Elm Street in Toronto. The inscription on this 1923 Memorial reads: ¿ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO DISTRICTS SONS OF ENGLAND BENEFIT SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR¿. -
Close up of Sons of England War Memorial
Angus Cornish's name is included on the SOE War Memorial. -
Todmorden Sons of England (SOE) war memorial
Memorial Tablet located at St. Barnabas Church, Danforth Avenue, Toronto. Erected by the Sons of England Benefit Society, Todmorden Lodge No. 298. Unveiled on August 21, 1920. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of ANGUS CORNISH
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
Digital gallery of
Private Angus Cornish
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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