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Military service
Service number:
190193
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
73rd Bn.
Birth:
July 10, 1892
Enlistment:
Aylmer, Ontario
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of George and Catherine Blashill, of Aylmer West, Ontario; husband of Mina Pendlebury (formerly Blashill), of 1043, Keifer Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Digital gallery of Private Harry Arthur Blashill
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Document
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 95 of 762. -
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) -
Photo of HARRY ARTHUR BLASHILL
Harry Arthur Blashill - photo taken from a poster that was created soon after the end of WWI to honour Aylmer and Malahide's fallen -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. 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
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Arthur Blashill
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Arthur Blashill
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Arthur Blashill
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Arthur Blashill
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Arthur Blashill
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Arthur Blashill
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Arthur Blashill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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