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Military service
Service number:
55157
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"A" Coy. 19th Bn.
Birth:
February 11, 1891
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of George William and Ann Beaumont, of Rose Cottage, The Orchards, Crossgates, Leeds, Yorks, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal George Fred Beaumont
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151. Page 321 of 724. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
The following group portrait of No. 2 Section, B Company, 19th Battalion C.E.F. appeared in the Toronto Star on January 19th, 1915. Lance Corporal George Fred Beaumont is in the back row, fourth from the left. In honoured memory. -
Memorial Plaque
George Fred Beaumont's name is recorded on a memorial plaque in Crossgates Methodist Church, Leeds, UK. -
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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