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Military service
Service number:
9686
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
August 16, 1887
Burslem, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 24, 1915
St. Julien, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Hugh Turner Latimer and Eliza Ann Latimer of Burslem, Staffordshire, England.
Brother of Private Walter Latimer, who died on April 23, 1915, while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment).
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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 -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private George Latimer
Digital gallery of
Private George Latimer
Digital gallery of
Private George Latimer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 23 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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