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Military service
Service number:
730764
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
52nd Bn.
Birth:
August 10, 1882
Death:
April 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Robert Walter McMeekin
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Preston War Memorial
Preston Ontario Cenotaph. Dedicated November 8, 1926. The names of Preston soldiers killed in the Second World War were added in 1949. Inscribed: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PRESTON WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SHARED ITS DANGERS. -
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Close-up of Galt War Memorial
Detail of the Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial. -
Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Photo of Robert McMeekin
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Waterloo Memorial Booklet
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Walter McMeekin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 287 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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