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Military service
Service number:
434912
Age:
26
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn.
Enlistment:
Medicine Hat, Ontario
Death:
April 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late James Cathro and his wife Isabella Mathewson, of Arbroath, Scotland; husband of the late Jean Lindsay Gibson Cathro.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Alex Cathro
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Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of ALEX CATHRO
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Newspaper clipping
CALGARY DAILY HERALD 1 May 1917 -
Newspaper clipping
CALGARY DAILY HERALD 1 May 1917 -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alex Cathro
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alex Cathro
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alex Cathro
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alex Cathro
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Alex Cathro
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 214 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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