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Military service
Service number:
802108
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
December 1, 1897
Death:
October 20, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. N.C. 510.
Additional information
Son of Lewis and Marion Tillson, of 130, Kent St., London, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Edwin Tillson
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Press Clipping
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Roll of Honour
Great War honour roll, St. George's Public School, 782 Waterloo Street, London, Ontario (artist not given). Photo by Deanna Halverson, London -
Photo of George Edwin Tillson
Source: Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918 : a record of service by Bank of Montreal Published 1921 Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com via Katherine Cross from the 18th Battalion Facebook Group. -
Biography
George Edwin Tillson Biography. Source: Memorial of the Great War, 1914-1918 : a record of service by Bank of Montreal Published 1921 Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com via Katherine Cross from the 18th Battalion Facebook Group. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George Edwin Tillson
Digital gallery of
Private George Edwin Tillson
Digital gallery of
Private George Edwin Tillson
Digital gallery of
Private George Edwin Tillson
Digital gallery of
Private George Edwin Tillson
Digital gallery of
Private George Edwin Tillson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 513 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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