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Military service
Service number:
1679
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
5th Field Amb
Birth:
January 21, 1891
Death:
May 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 19.
Additional information
Son of Fred. H. and Eliza Jane Lumsden, of Hamilton, Ontario. Enlisted from Victoria University, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal John Gordon Lumsden
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Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of John Gordon Lumsden
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. -
Photo of John Lumsden
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Diary
From the War Diary of the 5th Canadian Field Ambulance for May 1916, recording the death of Flight Lt. Lumsden. -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Gordon Lumsden
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Gordon Lumsden
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Gordon Lumsden
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Gordon Lumsden
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 121 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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