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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
October 26, 1886
Basse Terre, Bahamas
Enlistment:
January 2, 1915
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Helen Elder Greig Thom of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
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Press Clipping
News article from the Calgary Herald dated 25 Aril 1917 announcing the death of Lt. Ernest Colin Thom. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Roll of Honour
Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. Lt. Ernest Colin Thom's name appears on this Honour Roll for McIntyre Son & Co. Limited, Importers of Dry Goods, Montreal. On his military attestation Thom indicated that he was a Commission Agent. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of ERNEST COLIN THOM
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ernest Colin Thom
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 172 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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