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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Vincent Laurent Defoe

In memory of:

Private Vincent Laurent Defoe

September 17, 1916

Military Service

Service Number:

475820

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)

Additional Information

Son of Anna M. Defoe of Toronto, Ontario.

Brother of Private William Augustus Defoe, who died while serving with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.).

Commemorated on Page 76 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

I. O. 32.

Location:

Albert is a town on the River Ancre in the Department of the Somme, 28 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION is on the south-east side of Albert and the junction of the roads to Fricourt and Meaulte, and the Extension is entirely enclosed by it.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial Stained Glass– Pvt. Vincent L. Defoe's name on stain glass window (bottom left) in Sts. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church in Mississauga, Ontario. The stain glass was originally in St. Basil's Church in Toronto.

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    Memorial Stained Glass – Pvt. Vincent L. Defoe's name on stain glass window (bottom left) in Sts. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church in Mississauga, Ontario. The stain glass was originally in St. Basil's Church in Toronto.
  • Memorial Stained Glass– Pvt. Vincent L. Defoe's name on stain glass window in Sts. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church in Mississauga, Ontario. The stain glass was originally in St. Basil's Church in Toronto.

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    Memorial Stained Glass
    Memorial Stained Glass – Pvt. Vincent L. Defoe's name on stain glass window in Sts. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church in Mississauga, Ontario. The stain glass was originally in St. Basil's Church in Toronto.
  • Memorial– Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

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    Memorial – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Photo of VINCENT LAURENT DEFOE– Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

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    Photo of VINCENT LAURENT DEFOE
    Photo of VINCENT LAURENT DEFOE – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Circumstances of death registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 421 of 1036.

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    Circumstances of death registers
    Circumstances of death registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 421 of 1036.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. 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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    Memorial – Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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  • Attestation Paper

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    Attestation Paper
  • Newspaper Clipping– Pte. Vincent Defoe enlisted in Toronto in July 1915. His brother, Pte. William Augustus Defoe, 109119, 4th C.M.R., died June 2nd, 1916. A third brother, Sgt. Frederick Raumann Defoe, 56090, survived the war. All three brothers were born in Toronto. In honoured memory of the Defoe brothers.

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    Newspaper Clipping
    Newspaper Clipping – Pte. Vincent Defoe enlisted in Toronto in July 1915. His brother, Pte. William Augustus Defoe, 109119, 4th C.M.R., died June 2nd, 1916. A third brother, Sgt. Frederick Raumann Defoe, 56090, survived the war. All three brothers were born in Toronto. In honoured memory of the Defoe brothers.

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