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Military service
Service number:
109704
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
October 11, 1894
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of David and Alice Ashdown, of 33, Gledhill Avenue East, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private Albert Henry Ashdown
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping 2
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping 3
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping 4
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of ALBERT HENRY ASHDOWN
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Group Photo
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Sons of England War Memorial
Designed by Charles Adamson in bronze and granite, the Sons of England war memorial is located on University Avenue at Elm Street in Toronto. The inscription on this 1923 Memorial reads: ¿ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF TORONTO DISTRICTS SONS OF ENGLAND BENEFIT SOCIETY IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR¿. -
Close up of Sons of England War Memorial
Albert Henry Ashdown's name is included on the SOE War Memorial. -
Photo of ALBERT HENRY ASHDOWN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of ALBERT HENRY ASHDOWN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
Digital gallery of
Private Albert Henry Ashdown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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