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Military service
Service number:
784514
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
December 4, 1897
Death:
October 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of W. B. and. Elizabeth Switzer, of Binbrook, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Harold Edward Switzer
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
Inscription on the wall of Bouvigny-Boyeffles north east of Arras, France. This was a Hospital and military camp in 1914 -18. -
Group Photo
Harold and the "Binbrook Boys" (129th CEF Wentworth Battalion) -
Inscription
Menin Gate Panel 30,32 -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of HAROLD EDWARD SWITZER
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of Harold Switzer
1916 -
Photo of Harold Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
Digital gallery of
Private Harold Edward Switzer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 335 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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