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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Death:
June 13, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of H. B. Gordon, of Toronto, and Mary Reynolds Gordon. Graduate B.A., Toronto University.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
This Memorial Plaque stands in the main entrance of the Toronto Star building on #1 Younge Street. -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of Henry Russell Gordon
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of Lt. H. R. Gordon 3rd Bn is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Affairs. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Henry Russell Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 93 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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