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Lionel Harbord

In memory of:

Corporal Lionel Harbord

September 7, 1916

Military Service


Service Number:

11248

Age:

20

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

Division:

"B" Coy. 4th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

March 23, 1895

Son of Joseph Ernest and Eva Alice Harbord, of 14, Hughes Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 98 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

I. F. 17.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Memorial– Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Photo of LIONEL HARBORD– Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram October 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From a World War 1 issue of the  Edmonton Journal c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Newspaper Clipping (2)– From the Toronto Star for 28 February 1916.
  • Grave Marker– Photo Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England, 2008
  • Newspaper Clipping– Ptes. Lionel and Joseph Harbord (No. 11247) enlisted on September 22nd, 1914 at Valcartier, Quebec.  Joseph Harbord survived the war.

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