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Military service
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
54th Bn.
Death:
October 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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) -
Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Hubert Fenton
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 Hubert Fenton
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Acta Victoriana War Supplement
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Photo of Hubert Fenton
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of Lt. H. J. Fenton 54th Bn is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Affairs. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Roon, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; submitted by K. Parks, Alumni Affairs. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of HUBERT JEFFERSON FENTON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Circumstances of death registers
Extract of main trench map 57d showing the are marked as 57d.R.24.a.4.9 which would be the trench map coordinates based on the description. That can be compared to the Concentration Reports in the CWGC cemeteries. -
Circumstances of death registers
Killed in action in the trenches near Courcelette on 17 October 1916. -
Circumstances of death registers
Recorded burial location is about 100 yards east by east of Miraumont, immediately to the rear of Vancouver Trench. This appears to be a reference to 100 yards east of "East Miraumont Road". A map follows showing that loction, -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. 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 Brantford Expositor 1916. Submitted or the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Jefferson Fenton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 84 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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