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Military service
Service number:
475311
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
March 29, 1897
Death:
July 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Richard and Elizabeth Jane Poast, of Omemee, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Roy Irvine Poast
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - October 2009 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Honour Roll
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Photo of Roy Irvine Poast
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. -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Irvine Poast
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Irvine Poast
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Irvine Poast
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Irvine Poast
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Irvine Poast
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 149 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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