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Digital gallery of Private Rob Roy Airth
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From the Renfrew Mercury for 1 October 1915.
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Photo from the Renfrew Mercury for 22 October 1915.
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Letter printed in the Renfrew Mercury for 12 November 1915.
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Sgt R Airth 21st Bn CEF
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WO's & Sgts 21st BN CEF
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Photograph of grave in Contalmaison in original folder mailed to family.
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Letter to mother on the day after Roy Airth was killed in the battle of the Somme
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on enlistment October 10, 1914.
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 45 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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