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Military service
Service number:
85
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
December 7, 1879
Death:
May 8, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 58
Additional information
Son of George Charles and Ruth Sweetland, of Birchcliffe, Ontario; husband of May Sweetland, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England.
Digital gallery of Private George Henry Sweetland
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star for 22 May 1915, page 6. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE HENRY SWEETLAND
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Sweetland
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Sweetland
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Sweetland
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Sweetland
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Sweetland
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Sweetland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 38 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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