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Son of James Baird, K.C. and Haldane R. Baird, of 35 Oriole Gardens, Toronto, Ontario.
Military Cross(MC)and Bar
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918" published in 1921.
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
Alexander Watson Baird is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during WWI. U.C.C. is located in Toronto, Ontario.
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
From "The War Book of Upper Canada College" edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923. This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during WW1.
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
Group Photograph of the Officers of the 116th (Ontario County) Battalion. Published prominently in the Toronto Star on January 5th, 1918.
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
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.
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
The Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto was built in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Their names are carved on the Memorial Screen. Photo: K. Parks.
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 331 of 1072.
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Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
17 April 2016, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) https://cefrg.ca
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Alexander Watson Baird
From the Toronto Telegram May 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Captain Alexander Watson Baird
From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Alexander Watson Baird
From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918" published in 1921.
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Alexander Watson Baird is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during WWI. U.C.C. is located in Toronto, Ontario.
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From "The War Book of Upper Canada College" edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923. This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during WW1.
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Group Photograph of the Officers of the 116th (Ontario County) Battalion. Published prominently in the Toronto Star on January 5th, 1918.
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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.
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The Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto was built in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Their names are carved on the Memorial Screen. Photo: K. Parks.
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 331 of 1072.
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Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations.
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17 April 2016, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) https://cefrg.ca
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 362 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY, DOMART-SUR-LA-LUCE Somme, France
Domart-sur-la-Luce is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme in the valley of the Luce on the road from Amiens to Roye. Hourges is a hamlet on the same road a little south-east of the village and HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY is on the south-west side of the road.
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