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Military service
Age:
42
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn.
Birth:
September 3, 1874
Smiths Falls, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 22, 1915
Bamfield, England
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 29.
Additional information
Son of James and Adeline Caswell Gilroy, of Smiths Falls, Ontario. Husband of Nellie Bell Gilroy, of Smith's Falls, Ontario. He was the Postmaster.
Digital gallery of Major Sidney Wellington Gilroy
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Photo of Sidney Wellington Gilroy
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Photo 2 of Sidney Wellington Gilroy
Photo courtesy of the Lest We Forget remembrance initiative of the Smith Falls District Collegiate. -
Biography - page 1
Biography courtesy of the Lest We Forget remembrance initiative of the Smith Falls District Collegiate. -
Biography - page 2
Biography courtesy of the Lest We Forget remembrance initiative of the Smith Falls District Collegiate. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England
Digital gallery of
Major Sidney Wellington Gilroy
Digital gallery of
Major Sidney Wellington Gilroy
Digital gallery of
Major Sidney Wellington Gilroy
Digital gallery of
Major Sidney Wellington Gilroy
Digital gallery of
Major Sidney Wellington Gilroy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 92 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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