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Military service
Service number:
A/10772
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Enlistment:
Smith Falls, Ontario
Death:
October 10, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 6.
Additional information
Son of Samuel John and Ida Dempsay, of Cochrane, Ontario.
Brother of Private Nelson Hardy Dempsay, who died on April 22, 1915, while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario) Regiment and he is commemorated on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial.
Digital gallery of Private Samuel John Dempsay
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Newspaper Clipping
Article in the Renfrew Mercury for Friday, 29 October 1915, page 1. -
Newspaper Clipping (2)
Clipping from the Renfrew Mercury for 17 September 1915. -
Attestation Papers
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Circumstance of Death
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 635 of 1036. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel John Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel John Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel John Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel John Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel John Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel John Dempsay
Digital gallery of
Private Samuel John Dempsay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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