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Military service
Age:
35
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
15th Bn.
Birth:
May 20, 1881
Herbert River, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Ruth E. Landels, of Wolfville, King's Co., Nova Scotia. Teacher of Land Drainage at Truro College.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
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Photo of Bertram H. Landels
His Exellency,The Duke of Devonshire, Governor General of Canada, visited NSAC on the morning of December 10,1918. Dr. Cumming held an assembly and gave an address of welcome in which he also paid tribute to Lt. B H Landels, a member of faculty who fell at Flanders in 1916. His Exellency unvieled the Landels picture which had been presented for the reading room of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College,Truro, Nova Scotia. -
Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Bertram Landels
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Badge
15th Battalion cap badge. Photo by BGen G. Young, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Shoulder patch
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V. Goldman 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Badge
Cap Badge PPCLI. Lt Landels originally enlisted with this unit as a Private soldier but was sent to the 15th Bn after becoming an officer. Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V. Goldman 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Memorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Funds were raised by the Alumni Federation (now called the University of Toronto Alumni Association). The name of "Lt. B. H. LANDELS 15th Bn" is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Photo of BERTRAM HOWARD LANDELS
15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) Memorial located in the village of Courcelette, France. The memorial commemorates the unit’s actions on 26 September 1916 when they attacked Regina Trench during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge. The memorial honours all members of the unit who took part in the Somme offensive of 1916. Submitted by the 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bertram Howard Landels
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 116 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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