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Gilbert Ross Slack

In memory of:

Signaller Gilbert Ross Slack

March 19, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

540307

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Field Artillery

Division:

32nd Bty.

Additional Information

Born:

October 8, 1895
Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment:

August 28, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of John Henry and Jeanet A. Slack, of Riverside Park, Ottawa, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 501 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY
Ontario, Canada

Grave Reference:

Sec. 28/9. North-East.

Location:

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery. The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Grave marker– Pierre tombale au cimetière Beechwood, Ottawa. Section 28.

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    Grave marker – Pierre tombale au cimetière Beechwood, Ottawa. Section 28.
  • Grave marker– Pierre tombale de la famille Slack sur laquelle le nom de Gilbert Ross apparaît. Cimetière Beechwood, Ottawa. Section 28.

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    Grave marker
    Grave marker – Pierre tombale de la famille Slack sur laquelle le nom de Gilbert Ross apparaît. Cimetière Beechwood, Ottawa. Section 28.
  • Grave marker– Pierre tombale de la famille Slack sur laquelle le nom de Gilbert Ross apparaît. Cimetière Beechwood, Ottawa. Section 28.

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    Grave marker
    Grave marker – Pierre tombale de la famille Slack sur laquelle le nom de Gilbert Ross apparaît. Cimetière Beechwood, Ottawa. Section 28.
  • Photo of Gilbert Ross Slack– From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.

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    Photo of Gilbert Ross Slack
    Photo of Gilbert Ross Slack – From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.
  • Newspaper Clipping– From The Globe (Toronto) for 20 March 1918.

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    Newspaper Clipping
    Newspaper Clipping – From The Globe (Toronto) for 20 March 1918.

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