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Military service
Service number:
A/11015
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
November 1, 1892
Bridgtown, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
March 17, 1915
Guelph, Ontario
Death:
January 16, 1916
St. Omer, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 14.
Additional information
Son of George Walter and Eleanor Shipton, of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Brother of Amy.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Cuthbert Shipton
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Tableau d'honneur
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Photo de Joseph Cuthbert Shipton
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Coupure de presse
From the Daily Colonist of January 19, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y33uvic#mode/1up -
Memorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers’ Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, 2010, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
The Soldiers’ Tower was built by the University of Toronto Alumni Association in 1924 as a memorial to the Great War of 1914-1918. The names of those who died in that conflict were inscribed on the Memorial Screen at photo left. After the Second World War, names were added in the Memorial Arch at the Tower’s base. In total, almost 1,200 names are inscribed. A Memorial Room inside the Tower contains mementoes and artifacts, and a 51-bell carillon serves as the audio element of the living memorial to the alumni, students, faculty and staff who died in the World Wars. The Soldiers’ Tower is the site of an annual Service of Remembrance. Photo: K. Parks, 2008, Alumni Relations.
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Cuthbert Shipton
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Cuthbert Shipton
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Cuthbert Shipton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 162 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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