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Military service
Service number:
171844
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
June 16, 1893
Death:
July 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. B. 22.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Thomas Shorten
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Cemetery located approximately 3 kilometres to the south of Ieper, Belgium. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens 2010) -
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground
The Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Cemetery, located approximately 3 kilometres to the south of Ieper, Belgium. May they rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of CHARLES THOMAS SHORTEN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Cemetery
Stone of Remembrance ... Railway Dugouts Burial Ground … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Private Charles Thomas Shorten -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Thomas Shorten
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 162 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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