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Military service
Service number:
28595
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
May 11, 1891
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
May 18, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Helen Birnie, of Tanfield House, Tanfield Walk, Woodside, Aberdeen Scotland, and the late Charles Birnie.
Digital gallery of Private George Wilson Birnie
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 129 of 734 -
Memorial
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 Daily Colonist of June 4, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y151uvic#mode/1up -
Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 5 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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