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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
England
Enlistment:
Brockville, Ontario
Death:
November 3, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 28.
Additional information
Son of the Rev. F. Louis Barber, of The Rectory, Gananoque, Ontario. Born in England. Graduate of Toronto University.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Percy Louis Barber
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Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Photo of Percy Barber
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Percy Barber
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto was built in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Their names are carved on the Memorial Screen. Photo: K. Parks. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 975 of 1072 -
Cemetery
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
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Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Juno Beach Memorial Brick purchased in memory of Percy Louis Barber -
Memorial
Photo at Ring of Remembrance, Notre-Dame-Lorette, Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, France -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 196 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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