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Guy Peirce Dunstan

In memory of:

Second Lieutenant Guy Peirce Dunstan

July 1, 1916

Military Service


Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Border Regiment

Division:

11th Bn.

Additional Information


Son of Kenneth J. and Alice Adams Dunstan, of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 571 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

LONSDALE CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

VI. X. 9.

Location:

Authuille is a village 5 kilometres north of the town of Albert on the D151 road to Grandcourt. The Cemetery (signposted in the centre of Authille) is 1 kilometre east of the village. Access to the cemetery,500 metres from the road, is by a grass pathway (unsuitable forcars)

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Niagara  Falls Review......submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Guy Dunstan– From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918.  
Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
  • Photo of Guy Peirce Dunstan– From "The War Book of Upper Canada College", edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923.  This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during the First World War.
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Article– Photograph
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Roll of Service– From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
  • Memorial Tablet– Second Lieutenant Guy Peirce Dunstanis remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during  the First World War.  Upper Canada College is located in Toronto, Ontario.
  • Osgoode Hall War Memorial
  • The Soldiers' Tower– The Soldiers' Tower was built between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War.  The name of G. P. Dunstan is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left.  Photo:  K. Parks
  • Memorial Room– Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto.  Photo by David Pike, 2010.

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