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Military service
Service number:
404813
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
March 22, 1894
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 26, 1915
Niagara Camp, Ontario
Death:
June 2, 1916
Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Mary Corbett, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private James Frederick Corbett
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Pte. James Corbett was killed in action in June 1915. He was the son of Mary Corbett of Toronto and was the cousin of William T. Corbett (my grandfather) who was the son of David and Minnie Corbett, also of Toronto. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JAMES FREDERICK CORBETT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 785 of 818. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private James Frederick Corbett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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