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Military service
Service number:
316981
Age:
24
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
48th Bty.
Death:
March 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Family. M. 216.
Additional information
Son of Charlotte Smith, of Hamilton, Ont.
Digital gallery of Gunner Claude Erland Smith
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Circumstances of Death
Gunner Claude Erland Smith - Canadian Field Artillery 48th Bty. Son of Charlotte Smith, of Hamilton, Ont. Died in Toronto Ontario of pneumonia. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=36&q3=2924&sqn=92&tt=1292&PHPSESSID=08sercpfc4sar5cafm28c2jhr5 -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Gravemarker
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Inscription
FATHER IN THY TENDER KEEPING / LEAVE WE NOW OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING -
Monument
A view of Gnr. Claude Erland Smith's official war grave next to the Smith family memorial. -
Inscription
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Photo of CLAUDE ERLAND SMITH
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
Digital gallery of
Gunner Claude Erland Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 164 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HAMILTON CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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