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Victor Gordon Tupper

In memory of:

Captain Victor Gordon Tupper

April 9, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France

Military Service

Age:

21

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)

Division:

O.C. No.3 Coy. 16th Bn.

Citation(s):

Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal

Honours and Awards:

Military Cross

Additional Information

Born:

February 4, 1896
Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment:

September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Quebec

Son of the Honourable Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K.C.M.G., and Lady Tupper, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Brother of Reginald Hibbert, J. Stewart, James Macdonald and Dorothy Joyce.

Commemorated on Page 341 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

V. D. 10.

Location:

Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Memorial – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Victor Gordon Tupper– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Photo of Victor Gordon Tupper – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of April 13, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y106uvic#page/n0/mode/1up

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of April 13, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y106uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of April 19, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y112uvic#page/n0/mode/1up

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of April 19, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y112uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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

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  • Transcript of Letter– This is the last letter Tupper wrote his family just before the attack on Vimy Ridge in which he was killed.

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    Transcript of Letter – This is the last letter Tupper wrote his family just before the attack on Vimy Ridge in which he was killed.
  • Grave Marker– Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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    Grave Marker – Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England

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