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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Flight Sub Lieutenant
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Naval Air Service
Birth:
October 31, 1889
Belleville, Ontario
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 28, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Albert and Agnes Vair.
Additional citations
Distinguished Service Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
Digital gallery of Flight Sub Lieutenant Ellis Vair Reid
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Newspaper Clipping
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Honour Roll
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping 2
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Photo of Ellis Reid
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. -
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the Project Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 580 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.
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