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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
June 15, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Joseph Enoch and Annie C. Tranter, of Southampton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Joseph Lionel Tranter
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Photo of Joseph Lionel Tranter
From an official group portrait of the officers of the 1st Canadian Battalion (Western Ontario) taken at Bustard Camp, Salisbury Plain in December 1914. -
Southampton Cenotaph
Joseph Lionel Tranter is remembered on the Southampton Cenotaph. This war memorial includes plaques with the names of men from World Wars 1 & 2. The WWI list is inscribed: "In grateful remembrance of the men of Southampton who fought and died in the Great War". Southampton is in Bruce County, Ontario and is the oldest port on the Bruce Coast. This photograph was taken by Mr. Clive Freeman in the summer of 2002. -
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Joseph Lionel Tranter
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Joseph Lionel Tranter
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Joseph Lionel Tranter
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Joseph Lionel Tranter
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Joseph Lionel Tranter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 39 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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