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Military service
Service number:
405390
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
June 29, 1891
Death:
April 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. B. 25.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Sarah Alma Powell, of Nottingham, England; husband of Elizabeth May Powell, of 32, Madeira Place, Parliament St., Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Herbert Powell
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Private George Herbert Powell - Shortly after arriving to the front line trenches at St. Eloi he was shot through the head and killed instantly. Son of Robert and Sarah Alma Powell, of Nottingham, England; husband of Elizabeth May Powell, of 32, Madeira Place, Parliament St., Toronto, Ontario. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/mass-digitized-archives/circumstances-death-registers/Pages/item.aspx?PageID=80503 -
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE HERBERT POWELL
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
George Herbert Powell 405390 Memorial Plaque /Dead Man's Penny
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Private George Herbert Powell
Digital gallery of
Private George Herbert Powell
Digital gallery of
Private George Herbert Powell
Digital gallery of
Private George Herbert Powell
Digital gallery of
Private George Herbert Powell
Digital gallery of
Private George Herbert Powell
Digital gallery of
Private George Herbert Powell
Digital gallery of
Private George Herbert Powell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 150 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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