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Military service
Service number:
411072
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
March 10, 1896
Alameda, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
March 17, 1915
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of John Gillanders and Eva Louisa (nee Buchanan) Turriff, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Sifton Turriff
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Memorial Stained Glass
St Andrew's Church Ottawa WWI memorial -
Memorial
Honour and Loving memory to the former Parishioners of St Andrew`s Church, Ottawa who died during Word War I 1914 - 1918 and Grateful Tribute to those who daring to die survived -
Memorial
Lisgar Collegiate honour roll -
Press Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
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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) -
Honour roll
In memory of the Ashbury College alumni and staff who gave their lives in Word War I, World War II and the Korean War. Plaque erected in the Ashbury College Chapel, 362 Mariposa Avenue, Ottawa -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Sifton Turriff
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 175 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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