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Military service
Service number:
916310
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
July 17, 1895
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Percy William Ward
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Newspaper Clipping
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War Memorial
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan). -
Inscription
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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 November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Percy William Ward
Digital gallery of
Private Percy William Ward
Digital gallery of
Private Percy William Ward
Digital gallery of
Private Percy William Ward
Digital gallery of
Private Percy William Ward
Digital gallery of
Private Percy William Ward
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 178 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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