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Military service
Service number:
140607
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private George Blackburn
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Death Registry
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 453 of 734 -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE BLACKBURN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Blackburn
Digital gallery of
Private George Blackburn
Digital gallery of
Private George Blackburn
Digital gallery of
Private George Blackburn
Digital gallery of
Private George Blackburn
Digital gallery of
Private George Blackburn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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