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Military service
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
60th Sqdn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 7, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. D. 7.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
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Newspaper Clipping
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Henry Gordon
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 was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of Lt. H. A. Gordon R.A.F. is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Affairs. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Affairs. -
Concentrations of Graves Burial Return (COG-BR)
for Lieutenant Gordon, indicating that he was initially buried in the Vermandovillers German Military Cemetery at 62c.S.9.b.3.7. His body was exhumed from that location and concentrated int the Heath Military Cemetery. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Andrew Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 587 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HEATH CEMETERY, HARBONNIERES Somme, France
Harbonnieres is a village in the Department of the Somme, about 2.5 kilometres south of the straight main road from Amiens to Vermand and St Quentin; and HEATH CEMETERY is on the south side of the main road, due north of the village.
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