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Military service
Age:
31
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
September 29, 1884
Manchester, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
August 9, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 24, 1916
Courcelette, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 3.
Additional information
Son of James Henry and Sabra Oldham, of Manchester, England.
Digital gallery of Captain James Henry Oldham
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Osgoode Hall War Memorial
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Photo of James Henry Oldham
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Newspaper Clipping
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Honour Roll
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Royal Canadian Yacht Club Memorial
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club World War One Memorial, Toronto, Ontario. Images of the 1926 unveiling ceremony and the names listed on the side panels of the sun dial memorial. This unveiling and the photographs were presented in a special edition booklet entitled "In Memoriam 1914-1918". -
Photo of James Henry Oldham
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of James Henry Oldham
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
The Broadway Methodist Tabernacle (1887) was located at the northeast corner of Spadina and College in Toronto, Ontario. The congregation dated to 1872-1924. The building where the World War One memorial tablet was placed was demolished in 1930. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JAMES HENRY OLDHAM
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Captain James Henry Oldham
Digital gallery of
Captain James Henry Oldham
Digital gallery of
Captain James Henry Oldham
Digital gallery of
Captain James Henry Oldham
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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