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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
January 25, 1895
Clarksburg, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 1, 1914
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
November 27, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. N. 9.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Trollope Wilgress and Meta Carleton Wilgress, of Parliament Buildings, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant George Kortright Kesteven Wilgress
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Clipping from the Renfrew Mercury for 21 March 1919 mentionning the character and death of Lieutenant Wilgress. -
Newspaper Clipping (2)
From the Toronto Star for 15 December 1915. -
Grave Marker
At Rest at Ridgewood Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium -
Photo of George Wilgress
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Lieutenant GEORGE K KORTRIGHT WILGRESS and Sergeant WILLIAM ENNOSS of the 21st Battalion, whose deaths are reported in this item from the Globe, Toronto on Tuesday November 30, 1915 were killed in action on November 27, 1915 and were buried in adjacent graves in RIDGE WOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: The Globe, Toronto Monday December 6, 1915 -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of George Kortright Kesteven Wilgress
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Berlin (Ontario) News Record newspaper 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Daily Standard c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Kortright Kesteven Wilgress
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Kortright Kesteven Wilgress
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Kortright Kesteven Wilgress
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Kortright Kesteven Wilgress
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant George Kortright Kesteven Wilgress
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