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Military service
Service number:
157542
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Blaney, of 21, Cliff Avenue, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Digital gallery of Private Richard William Blaney
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Death Registry
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Blampie to Booth; Mircoform Sequence 11; Volume Number 131829_B016720; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 155 Page 81 of 762. -
Press Clipping
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Memorial Album
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Album
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) -
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
Digital gallery of
Private Richard William Blaney
Digital gallery of
Private Richard William Blaney
Digital gallery of
Private Richard William Blaney
Digital gallery of
Private Richard William Blaney
Digital gallery of
Private Richard William Blaney
Digital gallery of
Private Richard William Blaney
Digital gallery of
Private Richard William Blaney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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