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Military service
Service number:
249116
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
102nd Bn.
Death:
September 3, 1918
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Isaac L. Speyer, of 68, Indian Rd. Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, and his wife, the late Margaret Rodden.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Harry Speyer
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Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Pte. Charles H. Speyer's name appears on this Memorial Tablet. St. Paul's was founded in 1822 as the first Roman Catholic parish in York (now Toronto). The present church was designed by Joseph Connelly in 1889 and was renamed St. Paul's Basilica in 1999. The WWI Memorial plaque is located outside the front entrance of the church. The Basilica is located in downtown Toronto on the corner of Power and Queen Street -
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 505 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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