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Son of Frank and Margaret Harris, of Edge Hill, Liverpool, England; husband of May Harris, of Orillia, Ontario.
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Digital gallery of Regimental Sergeant Major (WO.I) Alma Inkerman Harris
Digital gallery of
Regimental Sergeant Major (WO.I) Alma Inkerman Harris
St. Michael's R.C. Cemetery, Orillia
Digital gallery of
Regimental Sergeant Major (WO.I) Alma Inkerman Harris
Marker at the grave of RSM Alma I. Harris, in St. Michael's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Highway12, Orillia, Ontario. Near the top of the stone is the badge of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Near the bottom is a personal message: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DADDY". Alma Inkerman Harris - whose given names clearly commemorate battles of the Crimean War - was born in Liverpool, England, in 1887. In 1912, he emigrated to Canada, where in the following year he married May Kelleher of Orillia, Ontario. A daughter was born to them in 1914. Harris returned to England to serve in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, British Army, in World War I. He was ultimately appointed Regimental Serjeant Major ("RSM") of the Regiment's 2/4th Battalion; he also won the Military Cross ("MC") for gallantry on the battlefield. After the war, he returned to his home in Canada where he died of illness. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2017.)
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Regimental Sergeant Major (WO.I) Alma Inkerman Harris
Died of a Cerebral embolism BW2
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St. Michael's R.C. Cemetery, Orillia
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Marker at the grave of RSM Alma I. Harris, in St. Michael's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Highway12, Orillia, Ontario. Near the top of the stone is the badge of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Near the bottom is a personal message: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DADDY". Alma Inkerman Harris - whose given names clearly commemorate battles of the Crimean War - was born in Liverpool, England, in 1887. In 1912, he emigrated to Canada, where in the following year he married May Kelleher of Orillia, Ontario. A daughter was born to them in 1914. Harris returned to England to serve in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, British Army, in World War I. He was ultimately appointed Regimental Serjeant Major ("RSM") of the Regiment's 2/4th Battalion; he also won the Military Cross ("MC") for gallantry on the battlefield. After the war, he returned to his home in Canada where he died of illness. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2017.)
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Died of a Cerebral embolism BW2 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=36&q3=2878&sqn=1083&tt=1317&PHPSESSID=h922f1kqt98jrhkj8bm2s1o2j9dspeae84henbt0looh587l1ub0
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Commemorated on:
Page 596 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ORILLIA (ST. MICHAEL'S) R. C. CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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