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Military service
Service number:
9883
Age:
25
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
June 14, 1891
Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
December 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Donald and Isabella Gow Bethune, of Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Sergeant David Bethune
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star for May 12, 1915. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of DAVID BETHUNE
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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) -
VIMY Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant David Bethune
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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