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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
7th Bde.
Birth:
March 15, 1893
Edmonton, Alberta
Enlistment:
August 7, 1915
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 9.
Additional information
Son of Frank and Harriet Oliver (nee Dunlop), of Edmonton, Alberta.
As a former member of The Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Aylmer, Quebec; Lieutenant Oliver is commemorated on a plaque in the entrance to the club.
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Allen Oliver
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Memorial
Honour and Loving memory to the former Parishioners of St Andrew`s Church, Ottawa who died during Word War I 1914 - 1918 and Grateful Tribute to those who daring to die survived -
Memorial
St Andrew's Church, Ottawa WWI memorial -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper Account of Lt. Oliver's death. -
Photo of Allen Oliver
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Newspaper Clipping 2
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The Royal Ottawa Golf Club plaque
The Royal Ottawa Golf Club erected a plaque honouring its former members who gave their lives in the Great War. -
Newspaper Clipping
The Morning Albertan Calgary, Monday November 27, 1916. -
Grave Marker
Courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England. -
Photo of Allen Oliver
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Oliver
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 143 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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