Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Albert Simpson Ashton
In memory of:
Gunner Albert Simpson Ashton
September 12, 1918
Military Service
89856
29
Army
Canadian Field Artillery
5th Bde.
Additional Information
March 7, 1889
Son of Mr. and Mrs Joseph Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne; husband of Ada Ashton, of 3, 9th Avenue, Lachine, Quebec, Canada.
Commemorated on Page 361 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
III. E. 14.
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY is situated on the northern outskirts of Boulogne. From Calais follow the A16 to Boulogne and come off at Junction 3 and follow the D96E for Wimereux Sud. Continue on this road for approximately 1 kilometre when the TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY will be found on the left hand side of the road.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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![Document– Mention of the death of Albert Simpson Ashton recorded in the parish registers of the Protestant church at Beauharnois and Châteauguay, Québec. The text reads: "Albert Simpson Ashton, gunner of the twenty-third howitzer battery of the Canadian artillery, born at Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England on the seventh of March 1884, married Ada Barstow at St. Luke's Church, Dukinfield [Lancashire], on the twelfth of February 1907, was an iron moulder by trade, died of gas pneumonia in the fifty-fifth general hospital Boulogne, France, on the 12th of September, 1918 after more than three years' military service overseas. He was a communicant of this parish. Sydenham Lindsey, parish priest"](https://cvwm.images.cloud.veterans.gc.ca/4024334_1.png)
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Document – Mention of the death of Albert Simpson Ashton recorded in the parish registers of the Protestant church at Beauharnois and Châteauguay, Québec. The text reads: "Albert Simpson Ashton, gunner of the twenty-third howitzer battery of the Canadian artillery, born at Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England on the seventh of March 1884, married Ada Barstow at St. Luke's Church, Dukinfield [Lancashire], on the twelfth of February 1907, was an iron moulder by trade, died of gas pneumonia in the fifty-fifth general hospital Boulogne, France, on the 12th of September, 1918 after more than three years' military service overseas. He was a communicant of this parish. Sydenham Lindsey, parish priest" -
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British Home Children Roll of Honour -
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Circumstances of death registers – Circumstances of Death -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Albert Simpson Ashton – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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