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Military service
Service number:
187
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Death:
May 4, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 58
Additional information
Son of John Gordon Sherriff and his wife, Haldane Doyle. Pte Sherriff had two sisters, Haldane Sherriff born in 1882, died in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1968. She was married to Charles McClelland. Haldane and Charles had one son Garnet Gordon McClelland born in Winnipeg. Mae Sherriff married Mr. Flisher and had two sons, Donald & Gordon. Pte Sherriff was not married. He wrote music. He enlisted at Ottawa on August 24, 1914. He had previously served for three years in the 15th US Cavalry.
Digital gallery of Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
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Medals awarded to Lorne Sherriff
Commemorative Medal (HMS Repulse), Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1914-15 Star. Also the Memorial Medallion, several inches in diameter, given to his family. It reads " He died for Freedom and Honour - Lorne Sherriff ". -
Memorial Medallion
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Medals - photo 2 - front
Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1914-15 Star -
Medals - photo 2 - back
Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1914-15 Star -
Commemorative Medal (HMS Repulse) - front
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Commemorative Medal (HMS Repulse) - back
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of LORNE ALBERT SHERRIFF
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
Digital gallery of
Private Lorne Albert Sherriff
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 36 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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