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Son of George T. and Ada Nunn, of 356, Spadina Avenue, Toronto.
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Private William Penstone Nunn
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Private William Penstone Nunn
Digital gallery of
Private William Penstone Nunn
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Private William Penstone Nunn
St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World
War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of
death.
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Private William Penstone Nunn
One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas
Church Baptistry.
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Private William Penstone Nunn
A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to Pte. William Penstone Nunn. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario.
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Private William Penstone Nunn
Calgary Herald May 25, 1915
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Private William Penstone Nunn
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private William Penstone Nunn
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Private William Penstone Nunn
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William Penstone Nunn
From the Toronto Telegram February 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of death.
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One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry.
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A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to Pte. William Penstone Nunn. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario.
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Calgary Herald May 25, 1915
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram February 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 31 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TYNE COT CEMETERY Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The cemetery itself lies 700 meters along the Tynecotstraat on the right hand side of the road.
Tyne Cot or Tyne Cottage was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. Three of these blockhouses still stand in the cemetery; the largest, which was captured on 4 October 1917 by the 3rd Australian Division, was chosen as the site for the Cross of Sacrifice by King George V during his pilgrimage to the cemeteries of the Western Front in Belgium and France in 1922.
The Tyne Cot Cemetery is now the resting-place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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