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Military service
Service number:
246388
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
January 26, 1898
Vars, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 28, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
March 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Felix and Catherine Barkley, of Vars, Ontario. He was a farmer. On enlistment, he was assigned to the 207 Battalion, was transferred overseas and assigned to the 7th Reserve Batalion at Seaford, England, followed by the 156th Battalion at Whitley, England
Digital gallery of Private Matthew Barkley
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Commemorative Plaque
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario -
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario
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Attestation Paper (page 1)
Attestation Paper Source Library and Archives Canada Soldiers of the First World War -
Attestation Paper (page 2)
Attestation Paper Source Library and Archives Canada Soldiers of the First World War -
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) -
Memorial
Built in 1904 in Vars, the Knox Presbyterian Church building served at different times as both a United Church and Presbyterian Church. Closed in 1980, the church building and its artefacts were relocated to the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum. IN MEMORIAM 1914-1918 MATTHEW BARKLEY ROBERT McELROY WESLEY SIMPSON CHARLES WARD THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES -
Memorial
Memorial – Plaque on Vars ON cenotaph. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
Digital gallery of
Private Matthew Barkley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 364 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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