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Military service
Service number:
433
Age:
33
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
3rd Coy. 8th Bn.
Birth:
October 5, 1881
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
April 25, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of William George and Ellen Bligh, of Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario. Served in the South African Campaign.
Digital gallery of Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
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Circumstance of death
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Blampie to Booth; Mircoform Sequence 11; Volume Number 131829_B016720; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 155 Page 157 of 762. -
St Thomas (Anglican) Church
St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario. The octagonal Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies. Individually inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls. Each panel includes the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of death. -
War Memorial Window
One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry. -
Memorial
A detail of the memorial panels dedicated to Corp. Charles Hubert Bligh. Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
Digital gallery of
Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
Digital gallery of
Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
Digital gallery of
Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
Digital gallery of
Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
Digital gallery of
Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
Digital gallery of
Corporal Charles Hubert Bligh
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 5 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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