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Military service
Service number:
163460
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
June 2, 1893
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wattie, of II, Constitution St., Aberdeen, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal James Wattie
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News Paper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
James Wattie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and according to this newspaper report, had been in Toronto for five years. Wattie enlisted in the 84th Battalion C.E.F. on July 29th, 1915. This article and photo appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram on December 8th, 1916. In honoured memory. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JAMES WATTIE
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lance Corporal James Wattie
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Wattie
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Wattie
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Wattie
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Wattie
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Wattie
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal James Wattie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 179 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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