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Military service
Service number:
513822
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
December 14, 1894
Death:
August 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. A. 18.
Digital gallery of Private Gilbert Silson
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Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Close-up of Galt War Memorial
Detail of the Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial. -
Circumstances of death registers
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Biography
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Silson
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Silson
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Silson
Digital gallery of
Private Gilbert Silson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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