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Military service
Service number:
487360
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Division:
H.Q. Coy. P.P.C.L.I.
Birth:
March 24, 1897
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
December 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. G. 2.
Additional information
Son of James and Jean Thomson Lang.
Digital gallery of Private Henry Drummond Lang
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Biography
In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo
In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Henry Lang
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Henry Lang
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
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Photo of Henry Lang
The following is handwritten on the back of this photo:<BR> Henry Drummond Lang<BR> March 24/97<BR> Photo taken by W.D McVey, Queen Street West, Toronto. -
Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Funds were raised by the Alumni Federation (now called the University of Toronto Alumni Association). The name of "Pte H. D. LANG P.P.C.L.I." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Drummond Lang
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Drummond Lang
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Drummond Lang
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 271 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France
The town of Abbeville is on the main road from Paris to Boulogne, about 80 kilometres south of Boulogne. On reaching Abbeville from Boulogne on the N1 at the roundabout, take the right turn immediately before Boulogne Road direction.
A CWGC direction sign is on site. Enter the ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY by the left hand side main gate and follow CWGC signs within the Cemetery.
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