Military service
Service number:
402108
Age:
27
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
49th Bn.
Birth:
October 13, 1890
Renishaw, Derbyshire, England
Enlistment:
February 8, 1915
Guelph, Ontario
Death:
October 30, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Husband of Florence Hadfield of Preston, Ontario. Brother of Austin Hadfield.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
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George Victor Hadfield and his wife, Florence.
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Photo of George Victor Hadfield
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.<P> Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Page 2 of his Letter to his wife, Florence (October 12, 1917)
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Page 1 of his Letter to his wife, Florence (October 12, 1917)
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Page 1 of his letter to his son, Austin (October 20, 1917)
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Page 2 of his letter to his son, Austin (October 20, 1917)
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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. -
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. -
Attestation Papers
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Letter to his wife, Florence (August 7, 1917)
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of GEORGE VICTOR HADFIELD
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Victor Hadfield
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 249 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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