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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
O.C. No.3 Coy. 16th Bn.
Birth:
February 4, 1896
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy Ridge, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. D. 10.
Additional information
Son of the Honourable Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K.C.M.G., and Lady Tupper, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Brother of Reginald Hibbert, J. Stewart, James Macdonald and Dorothy Joyce.
Additional citations
Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
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Newspaper Clipping
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Gravemarker
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Transcript of Letter
This is the last letter Tupper wrote his family just before the attack on Vimy Ridge in which he was killed. -
Grave Marker
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Memorial
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Victor Gordon Tupper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 13, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y106uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 19, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y112uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
Digital gallery of
Captain Victor Gordon Tupper
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 341 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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