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Military service
Service number:
56104
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
July 17, 1886
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. B. 22A.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Annie Belch, of 27, Ebury Rd., Rickmansworth, Herts, England.
Digital gallery of Private Ernest Belch
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Three portraits of family members who served in the first World War appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram on May 6th, 1915. This was part of a lengthy article that reported on this family's war service. A transcription of this article may be viewed on the Canadian Great War Project, link at http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/transcripts/transcriptDisplay.asp?Type=N&transNo=652 -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151. Page 659 of 724. -
Cemetery
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Grave marker
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Entrance
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: The Globe Toronto Friday April 28 1916 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Belch
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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