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Military service
Service number:
172217
Age:
24
Rank:
Cadet
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Enlistment:
Elmvale, Ontario
Death:
October 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Charles and Sarah Gilbert, of Elmvale, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Cadet Charles Oliver Gilbert
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Grave Marker
Cadet Gilbert's grave, located in the Elmvale Presbyterian Cemetery, Queen Street East, Elmvale, Ontario, is marked by a standard Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone. Near the bottom, a personal inscription reads "AT REST". Cadet Gilbert died of influenza. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2012. It may be copied and used without further permission.) -
Family Memorial
Cadet Gilbert is also commemorated on his family's memorial, which stands only a few feet from his grave in the Elmvale Presbyterian Cemetery, Queen Street East, Elmvale, Ontario. Also commemorated on this memorial are his parents and three of his five siblings. (One brother, Albert Gordon Gilbert, 1889-1980,is named on the reverse side of this memorial.) (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2012. It may be copied and used without further permission.)
Digital gallery of
Cadet Charles Oliver Gilbert
Digital gallery of
Cadet Charles Oliver Gilbert
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 587 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ELMVALE PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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