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Military service
Service number:
19252
Age:
45
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Battalion
Birth:
July 7, 1869
Fife, Scotland
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 28, 1915
Ypres - 2nd Battle, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. A. 39.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Duncan, of Brownhills, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Pte Fife was independently wealthy, but decided to answer the call to duty early in the war. He was single. There is some confusion regarding his age. Some documents show him at 45, others at 49 years of age.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Duncan
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Newspaper Clipping
News article from 1915 (retyped) announcing the death of Pte Thomas Duncan. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Duane to Dzhobiewski. Microform Sequence 30; Volume Number 31829_B016739. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 174. Page 475 of 1062. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Duncan
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Duncan
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Duncan
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Duncan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 13 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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