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Son of Louis Joseph and Caroline Pitkin Rogers Papineau, of The Manor House, Montebello, Quebec.
He studied law in Oxford, England, where he played ice hockey for the Oxford Canadians and was a member of the college rowing team.
Brother of Louis-Joseph IV, James Randall Wescott and Phillippe-Bruneau-Monigny.
His Great-Grandfather was Louis-Joseph Papineau, leader of the patriote rebels in 1837 in the Province of Quebec.
London Gazette No. 29131 dated 13 April 1915.<P>
"For conspicuous gallantry at St. Eloi, on 28th February, 1915, when in charge of bomb throwers during our attack on the enemy's trenches.
He shot two of the enemy himself, and then ran along" the German sap throwing bombs therein."
Mentioned in despatches, London Gazette No. 29200 dated 22 June 1915. British War Medal and Victory Medal
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
This photograph appeared in Guarding the Channel Ports, one of the volumes of a gift edition on the war produced by United Publishers of Toronto in the early 1920s. Major Talbot M. Papineau's letters are stored at the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
Group photograph of officers of the PPCLI, taken prior to departure from Canada in 1914. Lieutenant Talbot Papineau is in the front (seated) row. Appeared in the Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Saturday July 10, 1915.
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.
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CEF ATTESTATION courtesy LAC website.
page 1 only available online
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
Letter written by Talbot to his mother, 7 days before his death.
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Telegram written to Mrs. Papineau to advise her of the death of her son Talbot.
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph of November 7, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214928/Daily-Telegraph-November-7-1917.html
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
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
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau
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
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La Presse 3 November 1917
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From the Vancouver Daily Province November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Halifax Evening Mail February 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Montreal Star 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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This photograph appeared in Guarding the Channel Ports, one of the volumes of a gift edition on the war produced by United Publishers of Toronto in the early 1920s. Major Talbot M. Papineau's letters are stored at the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
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Group photograph of officers of the PPCLI, taken prior to departure from Canada in 1914. Lieutenant Talbot Papineau is in the front (seated) row. Appeared in the Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Saturday July 10, 1915.
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From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.
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CEF ATTESTATION courtesy LAC website. page 1 only available online
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Letter written by Talbot to his mother, 7 days before his death.
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Telegram written to Mrs. Papineau to advise her of the death of her son Talbot.
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Newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph of November 7, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214928/Daily-Telegraph-November-7-1917.html
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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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
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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
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La Presse 3 November 1917
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From the Vancouver Daily Province November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Halifax Evening Mail February 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Montreal Star 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 305 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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