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Military service
Service number:
B/142887
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 24, 1923
Boston
Enlistment:
February 19, 1943
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 4, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
8. A. 8.
Additional information
Son of Clement and Mary Thistle, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Walter Leslie Thistle
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Circumstances of death
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Document
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Photo of WALTER LESLIE THISTLE
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Document
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Letter
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Gravemarker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Leslie Thistle
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 460 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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