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Military service
Service number:
189596
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
December 18, 1897
South Dorchester, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 9, 1915
St. Thomas, Ontario
Death:
May 3, 1917
Fresnoy, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of James and Sarah Ballah, of Aylmer, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Orlo Grant Ballah
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Orlo Grant Ballah
Photo taken from a poster that was created soon after the end of WWI to honour Aylmer and Malahide's fallen -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Orlo Grant Ballah
Digital gallery of
Private Orlo Grant Ballah
Digital gallery of
Private Orlo Grant Ballah
Digital gallery of
Private Orlo Grant Ballah
Digital gallery of
Private Orlo Grant Ballah
Digital gallery of
Private Orlo Grant Ballah
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 195 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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