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Youngest son of the late Bruce H Thomson (C E (formerly of the Royal Engineers, Edinburgh) and his wife Mary M. Phillips, of Montreal. Born at Montreal.
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Private Alexander Reid Thomson
Cap Badge 96th Bn (Canadian Highlanders). Private Thomson was a member of the 96th Bn before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Alexander Reid Thomson
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders). Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Alexander Reid Thomson
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders). Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Alexander Reid Thomson
Record of Service Card (front side). From archives 48th Highlanders of Canada. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Alexander Reid Thomson
Record of Service Card (reverse side). From archives 48th Highlanders of Canada. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Alexander Reid Thomson
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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Cap Badge 96th Bn (Canadian Highlanders). Private Thomson was a member of the 96th Bn before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders). Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders). Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (front side). From archives 48th Highlanders of Canada. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (reverse side). From archives 48th Highlanders of Canada. Submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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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)
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 338 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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