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Military service
Service number:
426708
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn.
Death:
May 1, 1918
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Son of W. T. and Abigail J. Gilchrist, of Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Corporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
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Photo of Thomas Gray Gilchrist
The man in the centre is Thomas Gray Gilchrist, aged 19. He went out west from Pictou, Nova Scotia for a year to be a teacher in Regina before he signed up with the 13th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). He hadn't liked teaching much, and was excited to be going into action. He was a young man, of course, and the nation was crazy about war as an adventure in those days. A shell hit his trench, and he convalesced in Glasgow. He returned to the front, only to be wounded again, in the hip, and was lost in France; rescuers could not find him when they returned to where they'd seen him fall. That was on the first day of May, in 1918. He was 23 years old.<br> His brother Alec, to the left, came home with a metal plate in his head and spent many subsequent years in military hospitals.<br>The brother to his right is Don, who lived to realize a career as a renowned educator in Nova Scotia. -
Vimy 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) -
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
Corporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 414 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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