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Military service
Service number:
56149
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"B" Coy. 19th Bn.
Birth:
September 25, 1890
Death:
April 11, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Youngest son of Matthew and Mary Turnbull (step-mother), of 264, Main St., Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private James Roy Turnbull
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: The Globe Toronto Saturday April 29 1916 -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JAMES ROY TURNBULL
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
The war memorial that used to sit in this small red sandstone church, built in 1904 in the small town of Barrhead Scotland . I have this memorial in my possession as the Church was closed, so the memorial was rescued for safe keeping Both Turnbull lads are commemorated on this. -
Other
Barrhead Methodist Church East Renfrewshire Scotland -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Roy Turnbull
Digital gallery of
Private James Roy Turnbull
Digital gallery of
Private James Roy Turnbull
Digital gallery of
Private James Roy Turnbull
Digital gallery of
Private James Roy Turnbull
Digital gallery of
Private James Roy Turnbull
Digital gallery of
Private James Roy Turnbull
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 175 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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