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Military service
Service number:
455021
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
Glasgow, Scotland
Death:
July 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Pte Paton was born in 1893 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the son of John and Margaret Paton. Husband of Ida Mae Bain Cota (formerly Paton), of Long Lake, Ontario.
Additional citations
Victory Medal, British Victory Medal, British War Medal
Digital gallery of Private Hugh George Paton
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Honour roll
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll -
Circumstances of death registers
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily British Wig August 18th 1917. ( Kingston Ontario) Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh George Paton
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh George Paton
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh George Paton
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh George Paton
Digital gallery of
Private Hugh George Paton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 146 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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