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Military service
Service number:
808921
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
June 11, 1885
Port Perry, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 8, 1916
Clagary, Alberta
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of William James McMurtry of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Plaque
1914-1918 Memorial tablet, Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, 300 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario. This congregation was established in 1887, and in 1925 became the Bloor Street United Church. The tablet was unveiled on May 16th, 1920. It was inscribed: "In memory of the men of Bloor Street Presbyterian Church who went out to battle and died for Freedom's cause. They feared not Death and meeting it they won the Victor's Crown." -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Fothergill McMurtry
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 287 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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