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Military service
Service number:
1043003
Age:
30
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Railway Troops
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
October 30, 1886
Enlistment:
January 20, 1917
Death:
August 7, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. A. 7.
Additional information
Born 30 October 1886 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Isabella (née Deans) Ward, of Glasgow, Scotland. Enlisted with his friend Robert McElroy in the 240th Battalion, transferred to 257th Railway Construction Battalion and was sent overseas on 19 February 1917. He embarked for France on 27 March 1917 where he was transferred to the 7th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troop
Digital gallery of Sapper Charles Ward
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Memorial Plaque
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario -
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario
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Gravemarker
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Attestation Paper (page 1)
Attestation Paper Source Library and Archives Canada Soldiers of the First World War -
Attestation Paper (page 2)
Attestation Paper Source Library and Archives Canada Soldiers of the First World War -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Memorial
Plaque on Vars ON cenotaph. -
Memorial
Plaque of Charles Ward on one of the posts in front of Vars ON cenotaph. -
Memorial
Built in 1904 in Vars, the Knox Presbyterian Church building served at different times as both a United Church and Presbyterian Church. Closed in 1980, the church building and its artefacts were relocated to the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum. IN MEMORIAM 1914-1918 MATTHEW BARKLEY ROBERT McELROY WESLEY SIMPSON CHARLES WARD THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
Digital gallery of
Sapper Charles Ward
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 345 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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