Military service
Service number:
802994
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Battalion
Birth:
March 25, 1884
London, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 25, 1916
London, Ontario
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
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Additional information
Son of Mary Geary, of 339 Hill St., London, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Oliver Brooks Geary
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Photo of OLIVER BROOKS GEARY
Courtesy and with permission of the the Geary family. -
Post Card
Post card home to family one month before his death. Courtesy and with permission of the the Geary family. -
Medal
Memorial Cross -
Medal
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Medal
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo 2 of Memorial
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Photo 3 of Memorial
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Commemorative Inscription
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Closer view of the Memorial
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Memorial
Private Oliver Brooks Geary is remembered on this memorial which is located in London, Ontario. -
War Memorial
Geary appears on the WW1 Honour Roll of Wellington Street United Church, London, Ontario. This church is now closed and its congregation is part of Rowntree Memorial United. Geary's given name is spelled Oliva on the Memorial. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of OLIVER BROOKS GEARY
Pte Oliver Geary appears in the December 1918 issue of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario -- And in the Morning -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Brooks Geary
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Brooks Geary
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Brooks Geary
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Brooks Geary
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Brooks Geary
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 242 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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