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Military service
Age:
34
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
49th Bn.
Death:
September 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Sara B. Ferris, of 12320, 104th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, and the late Edward Ferris.
Digital gallery of Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
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Newspaper Clipping
Image provided to Richard Laughton by David Archer. Captain Ferris is a candidate for Plot 8 Row J Grave 6 at the Adanac Military Cemetery near Courcelette, France. He was the only Captain of the 49th Battalion lost in the Great War and his name was inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. -
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) -
Monument
Orangeville (Dufferin County) Ontario War Memorial. -
Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.September 1916.......Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
Digital gallery of
Captain Ernest Lyon Ferris
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 85 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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