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Military service
Service number:
270557
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Enlistment:
Harriston, Ontario
Death:
October 19, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Blk. M. 67.
Additional information
Son of Janet Thomson, of Harriston, Ontario., and the late Thomas Thomson.
Digital gallery of Private Robert James Thomson
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Grave Marker
Grave marker - Harrison Public Cemetery - September 2017 ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Robert James Thomson's grave, marked by a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) stone, in the Harriston Cemetery, Jessie Street, Harriston, Ontario. A personal inscription near the bottom of the stone reads: "THEY NEVER DIE WHO LIVE IN HEARTS THEY LOVED". (This image was taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2012. It may be copied and used without further permission.) -
Family Memorial
Robert James Thomson is also commemorated on this family monument in the Harriston Cemetery, Harriston, Ontario. (This image was taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2012. It may be copied and used without further permission.) -
Cemetery
Entrance - Harrison Public Cemetery - September 2017 ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Harrison Public Cemetery - September 2017 ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Robert James Thomson
Digital gallery of
Private Robert James Thomson
Digital gallery of
Private Robert James Thomson
Digital gallery of
Private Robert James Thomson
Digital gallery of
Private Robert James Thomson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 594 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HARRISTON PUBLIC CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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