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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
201803
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Death:
October 7, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. E. 11.
Additional information
Son of George E. Gordon, of Laurel, Ontario. Brother of Private Elmer Gordon, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Monument
Orangeville (Dufferin County) Ontario War Memorial. -
Photo of Jospeh Gordon
Joe Gordon, Toronto 1915. Killed near Cambrai, France 1918 -
Brothers
Joe (on right) and brother Anstead (Elmer)Gordon, Toronto 1915. Anstead was killed in 1915, Joe was killed near Cambrai, France 1918. Both were my father's cousins from Laurel,Ontario. -
Group photo
Joe Gordon on left with friends in France 1916. Killed in 1918 -
Envelope
Front of one of many notes sent home to my grandmother, his aunt - Maggie Gordon, in Grand Valley -
Letter
Back of one of many notes sent home to my grandmother, his aunt - Maggie Gordon, in Grand Valley -
Letter
Page one of many letters home to my grandmother, his aunt, Maggie Gordon, who virtually raised Joe and his brother Anstead (Elmer). Shows the attitudes prior to going overseas. -
Letter
Page two of many letters home to my grandmother, his aunt, Maggie Gordon, who virtually raised Joe and his brother Anstead (Elmer). Shows the attitudes prior to going overseas.
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Matthew Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 416 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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