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Military service
Service number:
602926
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Mounted Rifles
Birth:
October 5, 1895
Enlistment:
Galt, Ontario
Death:
June 18, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
E. 10.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Eliza Baird, of 8 Concession St., Galt, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private James Cardy Baird
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Photo of James Cardy Baird
His service papers have a corrected date of death of June 19, 1917. Photograph probably taken before embarkation to England. -
Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Close up of Galt War Memorial
Detail of the Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial. -
Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Petit-Vimy Cemetery, near Vimy Ridge and the town of Vimy, France. May he rest in peace.(J.Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Petit-Vimy Cemetery, near Vimy Ridge and the town of Vimy, in the Pas de Calais, France -
Photo of James Baird
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Waterloo Memorial Booklet
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of JAMES CARDY BAIRD
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Solider Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private James Cardy Baird
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Private James Cardy Baird
Digital gallery of
Private James Cardy Baird
Digital gallery of
Private James Cardy Baird
Digital gallery of
Private James Cardy Baird
Digital gallery of
Private James Cardy Baird
Digital gallery of
Private James Cardy Baird
Digital gallery of
Private James Cardy Baird
Digital gallery of
Private James Cardy Baird
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 194 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PETIT-VIMY BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Vimy is a village some 10 kilometres north of Arras and the PETIT-VIMY BRITISH CEMETERY is west of the village and a little west of the main road from Lens to Arras (N25).
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