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Military service
Service number:
16774
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
April 2, 1894
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Henry Blum Aardt Greaves and Isabelle Harper Anderson Greaves, of Duncan, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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Memorial
Pte. Harry Pearson Greaves was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. He indicated on his military attestation that he was a Banker. He volunteered to serve early in the war and signed his military attestation in September 1914 at Valcartier Camp, Quebec. He was a member of the historic First Canadian Contingent. Image source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
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Detail of Pte. Harry Pearson Greaves' name as it appeared on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the daily Colonist of June 26, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y170uvic#mode/1up -
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 29, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y172uvic#mode/1up.
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Pearson Greaves
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Pearson Greaves
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Pearson Greaves
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Pearson Greaves
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Pearson Greaves
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 17 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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