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Military service
Service number:
642738
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
October 28, 1895
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of William and Ellen Prentice, of Honeywood, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Prentice
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George Prentice, my great uncle and proud inpiration of what it is to be Canadian. My father and I both have our middle names in his namesake.
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Photo of George Prentice
From a collage photo layout of members of A Company and the bugle band of the 157th Canadian Infantry Battalion. -
Monument
Orangeville (Dufferin County) Ontario War Memorial. -
Inscription
His name 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)
Digital gallery of
Private George Prentice
Digital gallery of
Private George Prentice
Digital gallery of
Private George Prentice
Digital gallery of
Private George Prentice
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 311 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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