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Military service
Service number:
171620
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
July 13, 1887
Fermanagh
Enlistment:
August 11, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 2, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. C. 16.
Additional information
Son of Patrick and Maggie Gilroy, of Co. Down, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Private John Gilroy
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Memorial
Pte. John Gilroy's name appears on this Memorial Tablet. St. Paul's was founded in 1822 as the first Roman Catholic parish in York (now Toronto). The present church was designed by Joseph Connelly in 1889 and was renamed St. Paul's Basilica in 1999. The WWI Memorial plaque is located outside the front entrance of the church. The Basilica is located in downtown Toronto on the corner of Power and Queen Street. -
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In honoured memory. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Gilroy
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilroy
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilroy
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilroy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 243 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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