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Husband of Annie Upper, of Listowel, Ont. I. (Wallace).
Digital gallery of Private David Upper
Digital gallery of
Private David Upper
Source: The Globe, Toronto Thursday December 30, 1915
Digital gallery of
Private David Upper
Marker at the grave of Private David Upper, 110th (Perth) Battalion, in the Fairview Cemetery, Davidson Avenue North, Listowel, Ontario. A personal message near the bottom of the marker reads: "FAREWELL MY WIFE AND CHILDREN ALL / FROM YOU A FATHER CHRIST DOTH CALL". Pte Upper enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Listowel on 18 December 1915; he was admitted to the Stratford General Hospital in Stratford, Ontario, on 26 December 1915; and he died there of illness, diagnosed as septicaemia (or, in the vernacular, blood poisoning), on 29 December 1915. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2018.)
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Source: The Globe, Toronto Thursday December 30, 1915
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Marker at the grave of Private David Upper, 110th (Perth) Battalion, in the Fairview Cemetery, Davidson Avenue North, Listowel, Ontario. A personal message near the bottom of the marker reads: "FAREWELL MY WIFE AND CHILDREN ALL / FROM YOU A FATHER CHRIST DOTH CALL". Pte Upper enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Listowel on 18 December 1915; he was admitted to the Stratford General Hospital in Stratford, Ontario, on 26 December 1915; and he died there of illness, diagnosed as septicaemia (or, in the vernacular, blood poisoning), on 29 December 1915. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2018.)
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Page 40 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LISTOWEL (FAIRVIEW) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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