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Military service
Service number:
335007
Age:
20
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Garrison Artillery
Division:
1st Bty.
Death:
October 18, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. F. 14.
Additional information
Son of Dr. E. H. Eidt and Mary Elizabeth Read, of 68, St. Vincent St. South, Stratford, Ontario.
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"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
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Gunner Wilfrid Read Eidt ca 1915 -
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Eidt family in 1905: Left to right, Dr. Edward Henry, Beatrice, Wilfrid, Cecil, Mary (Read) -
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Wilfrid Read Eidt, graduation photo, Stratford Normal School, 1915
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Gunner Wilfrid Read Eidt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 233 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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