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Military service
Service number:
139580
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
60th Bn.
Death:
September 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Geo. and Jennie Gordon, of Laurel, Ontario.
Brother of Private Joseph Matthew Gordon, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private Elmer Gordon
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Newspaper Clipping
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Monument
Orangeville (Dufferin County) Ontario War Memorial. -
Brothers
Elmer (known as Anstead) on left with brother Joe prior to leaving for overseas in 1915, Taken in Toronto. Anstead was killed early in the war, 1916. They were both first cousins of my father, Norm Wallace, whose mother Maggie Gordon was their father's sister. -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Elmer Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 93 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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