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Military service
Service number:
110287
Age:
20
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
October 5, 1895
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Robert James Keir, of 1716, 14th Avenue West, Calgary, Alberta, and the late Janet Rorison Keir.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Robert William Keir
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Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Robert William Keir
overseas WWI -
Photo of Robert William Keir
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Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert William Keir
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert William Keir
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert William Keir
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert William Keir
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert William Keir
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Robert William Keir
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 112 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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