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Son of John A. and Minerva Dalrymple, of Bismarck, Lincoln Co., Ontario.
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Gunner Oliver Gordon Dalrymple
Gunner Oliver Dalrymple, 337869. Enlisted with the 67th Battery, University of Toronto Battalion in April, 1916, later drafted to 84th Battery. Serving with the Artillery in France, he was killed in the battle of the Somme, Nov. 3, 1916, nine days before his 22nd birthday. Born near Bismarck, Gainsborough Twp., Niagara Co. in 1894. He had passed into his third year at the Royal College of Dentistry, University of Toronto. Information of his death was revceived from his close friend, Gunner J. H. Jackson, 337913, 18th Battery, 5th Brigade, 2nd Division, C.E.F.
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From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918.
Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
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Gunner Oliver Gordon Dalrymple
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The names of the fallen are carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks
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Gunner Oliver Gordon Dalrymple
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Gunner Oliver Dalrymple, 337869. Enlisted with the 67th Battery, University of Toronto Battalion in April, 1916, later drafted to 84th Battery. Serving with the Artillery in France, he was killed in the battle of the Somme, Nov. 3, 1916, nine days before his 22nd birthday. Born near Bismarck, Gainsborough Twp., Niagara Co. in 1894. He had passed into his third year at the Royal College of Dentistry, University of Toronto. Information of his death was revceived from his close friend, Gunner J. H. Jackson, 337913, 18th Battery, 5th Brigade, 2nd Division, C.E.F.
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From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
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The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The names of the fallen are carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 74 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Pozieres is a village some 6 kilometres north-east of Albert, and the POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, which is enclosed by the Pozieres Memorial, is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres.
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