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Military service
Service number:
7120
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
January 12, 1896
Enlistment:
Galt, Ontario
Death:
April 22, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Mary Ann Barker, of Galt, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Charles Barker
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Menin Gate
Menin Gate, October 2009, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Panel 10 Menin Gate
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate, August 2012, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Close up of Galt War Memorial
Detail of the Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press July 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
Digital gallery of
Private George Charles Barker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 4 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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