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Military service
Service number:
142190
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
January 31, 1892
Enlistment:
Cookstown, Ontario
Death:
September 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William and Sarah Copeland, of Cookstown, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Copeland
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
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Cenotaph
Barrie, Ontario Cenetaph Innisfil Memorial -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE COPELAND
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Park
Cookstown Memorial Park -
Memorial
Cookstown Cenotaph -
Memorial
Cookstown Cenotaph -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 717 of 818. No record of burial. -
Inscription
Private George Copeland's name inscribed on the National Vimy Memorial, with a photo of his name on the local Cookstown memorial beside it. -
Photo of GEORGE COPELAND
Private George Copeland's photo at the sugar refinery near where he was killed on the Somme in Courcelette. -
Street Sign
Cookstown street named in honour of Private George Copeland with a poppy. -
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 October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Barrie Examiner c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
Digital gallery of
Private George Copeland
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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