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Military service
Service number:
193287
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
September 23, 1883
Hebert, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 13, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Minnie Jane Drake of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Reginald Ezra Drake
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star for 1 October 1917, page 8. -
Attestation Paper
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Attestation Paper (page 2)
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Newspaper Clipping
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Article
In honoured memory. -
Cap Badge
Cap Badge 3rd Bn (Toronto Regiment). Pte Drake enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the 3rd Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Shoulder Patch
Shoulder Patch 3rd Bn (Toronto Regiment). Pte Drake enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the 3rd Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Cap Badge
Cap Badge 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Private Drake enlisted in the 92nd Bn but was transferred to the 3rd Bn (Toronto Regiment) as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V.Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 847 of 1076. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
Digital gallery of
Private Reginald Ezra Drake
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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