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Military service
Service number:
451432
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
June 7, 1894
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the Rev. Henry Ernest Simmonds Somerville, of Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A., and his wife Margaret Perley Willis, of Toronto. He belonged to a family of British sailors, and his two brothers served with the American Army in the Great War.
Digital gallery of Private Philip Somerville
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War Memorial
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan). -
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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 PHILIP SOMERVILLE
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Philip Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Philip Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Philip Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Philip Somerville
Digital gallery of
Private Philip Somerville
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 166 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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