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Son of the late President and Mrs. James Loudon, of University of Toronto. Bachelor of Arts of University of Toronto.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Harbord Collegiate Institute program for Remembrance Day 1931. Listing the names of the school's Fallen.
Submitted by BGen (ret) G Young, 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Memorial plaque for Lt. Brian Melville Loudon. Located inside St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, King Street West at Simcoe Street in Toronto, Ontario.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Memorial Plaque located inside St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, King Street
West at Simcoe Street, Toronto, Ontario.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Front Entrance of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
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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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Grave of Lt Brian M Loudon, 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada), Dominion Cemetery, Hendecourt-Les-Cagnicourt, France. Dileas Gu Brath.
Photo by BGen G Young, 15th Bn Memorial Project. 08 Nov 09
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
15th Bn cap badge. Photo BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
The 15th Battalion memorial at Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France on the site of the wooded hill known during the war as ‘The Crow’s Nest’. The 15th Battalion assaulted and captured ‘The Crow’s Nest”on 01 Sept 1918 in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queant Line. The memorial was dedicated on 26 April 2010 to those of the 15th Battalion who fell here and in the breakthrough of the D-Q line in early September 1918.
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
1st Division, 3rd Brigade shoulder patch worn by 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada). Photo BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team..
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
The rebuilt Chateau in Chateau Wood, Hendecourt les Cagnicourt. It was part of the objective when the 15th Battalion assaulted The Crow's Nest on 01 September 11918. Lt Loudon was killed leading his platoon in the assault on Chateau Wood. In honour of Lt Loudon, one of the Chateau's meeting rooms was named after him during the reception at the Chateau that followed the 26 April 2010 dedication of the 15th Battalion's Crow's Nest memorial.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
The 15th Battalion memorial at Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France on the site of the wooded hill known during the war as “The Crow’s Nest”. The 15th Battalion assaulted and captured the Crow’s Nest on 1 Sept 1918 in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queant Line. The memorial was dedicated on 26 April 2010 to those of the 15th Battalion who fell here and in the breakthrough of the D-Q line in early September 1918. Submitted by Capt (rtd) V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) Submitted by Capt (rtd) V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Cap badge 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Lt Loudon originally enlisted in this unit but was sent to the 15th bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
Group photograph of Officers of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) taken in Sept 1916. Of the six Officers in the photograph, three would be killed in action: Lt EM Haldane (standing left) at Hill 70 in August 1917; Lt BM Loudon (standing centre) at The Crow's Nest in Sept 1918 and Lt Geoffrey Snow at Regina Trench in September 1916.
Submitted by the 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Brian Melville Loudon
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Harbord Collegiate Institute program for Remembrance Day 1931. Listing the names of the school's Fallen. Submitted by BGen (ret) G Young, 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
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Memorial plaque for Lt. Brian Melville Loudon. Located inside St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, King Street West at Simcoe Street in Toronto, Ontario.
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Memorial Plaque located inside St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, King Street West at Simcoe Street, Toronto, Ontario.
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Front Entrance of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.
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From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
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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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Grave of Lt Brian M Loudon, 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada), Dominion Cemetery, Hendecourt-Les-Cagnicourt, France. Dileas Gu Brath. Photo by BGen G Young, 15th Bn Memorial Project. 08 Nov 09
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15th Bn cap badge. Photo BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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The 15th Battalion memorial at Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France on the site of the wooded hill known during the war as ‘The Crow’s Nest’. The 15th Battalion assaulted and captured ‘The Crow’s Nest”on 01 Sept 1918 in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queant Line. The memorial was dedicated on 26 April 2010 to those of the 15th Battalion who fell here and in the breakthrough of the D-Q line in early September 1918. DILEAS GU BRATH
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1st Division, 3rd Brigade shoulder patch worn by 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada). Photo BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.. DILEAS GU BRATH
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The rebuilt Chateau in Chateau Wood, Hendecourt les Cagnicourt. It was part of the objective when the 15th Battalion assaulted The Crow's Nest on 01 September 11918. Lt Loudon was killed leading his platoon in the assault on Chateau Wood. In honour of Lt Loudon, one of the Chateau's meeting rooms was named after him during the reception at the Chateau that followed the 26 April 2010 dedication of the 15th Battalion's Crow's Nest memorial.
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The 15th Battalion memorial at Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France on the site of the wooded hill known during the war as “The Crow’s Nest”. The 15th Battalion assaulted and captured the Crow’s Nest on 1 Sept 1918 in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queant Line. The memorial was dedicated on 26 April 2010 to those of the 15th Battalion who fell here and in the breakthrough of the D-Q line in early September 1918. Submitted by Capt (rtd) V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) Submitted by Capt (rtd) V Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Cap badge 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Lt Loudon originally enlisted in this unit but was sent to the 15th bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Group photograph of Officers of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) taken in Sept 1916. Of the six Officers in the photograph, three would be killed in action: Lt EM Haldane (standing left) at Hill 70 in August 1917; Lt BM Loudon (standing centre) at The Crow's Nest in Sept 1918 and Lt Geoffrey Snow at Regina Trench in September 1916. Submitted by the 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
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The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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The Golden Book : The Military Institute, 1927 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press);
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 451 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DOMINION CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt is in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 16 kilometres south-east of Arras and 4 kilometres south of the Arras-Cambrai main road.
DOMINION CEMETERY is 2.5 kilometres north-east of the village, about 545 metres from the road.
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