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Military service
Service number:
145542
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
87th Bn.
Birth:
March 17, 1887
Death:
September 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 14.
Additional information
Commemorated on the Private Thomas George King Plaque.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas George King
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Memorial
St. Matthew's Anglican Church 217 First Avenue Ottawa, Ontario -
Memorial Stained Glass
'The Resurrection' by Robert McCausland Limited was dedicated at St Matthew's Anglican Church in the Glebe, Ottawa on 17 Jan 1921 to the members of the church who served during the Great War. The window was transferred to the current site, 217 First Avenue in 1938. -
Attestation Papers
Private Thomas George King was born in London, England on 17/03/1887. He worked as a farmer and served for two summers with the 56th regiment in Goderich, Ontario. When he enlisted, he listed his next of kin as Richard and Annie King and his address as Kenmore, Ontario. The attestation form was later modified after he married Mrs. Sarah Anna King (nee Barney), who was twice married. Sarah was married the first time in 1899 in England and her husband Mr. Foster, died a short time before she came to Canada in 1912. Thomas and Sarah lived at 10 Adelaide Street in Ottawa with 3 daughters and a son. -
Inscription
Dury Mill British Cemetery Pas de Calais France -
Dury Canadian Memorial
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Dury Mills British Cemetery
Dury Mills British Cemetery, 10 Miles east of Areas, France -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembering Thomas George King, St Matthew's Anglican Church of the Glebe, September 2018 -
Memorial
This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Private Thomas George King, born March 1887. He was killed in the Battle of Dury Wood and is buried at Dury Mill British Cemetery, between Arras and Cambrai. This plaque was originally located at the Loyal Orange #222 Billings Bridge; at the time, the village of Billings Bridge was a small community near the present day Billings Bridge in Ottawa. With the closure of the Lodge, the plaque eventually came into the hands of Gloucester Township Historical Society.
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas George King
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 442 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURY MILL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D939). Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury. 300 metres after the Memorial the Cemetery is signposted to the left towards Dury village. 200 metres from the D939 the cemetery is signposted to the left. It is located in open fields, and is approached along an unsurfaced track about 500 metres long.
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