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Military service
Service number:
1642
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
No. 5 Field Amb
Birth:
August 8, 1892
London, England
Enlistment:
November 20, 1914
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Catherine Hodges of Norbery, England.
Digital gallery of Private George Henry Grindley
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Inscription
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) -
Inscription
Inscription - Vimy Memorial, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Circumstances of death registers
Circumstances of Death -
Cenotaph
Chatsworth Cenotaph, Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada -
Cenotaph
Chatsworth Cenotaph Names, Chatsworth, Ontario Canada -
Photo of George Grindley
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Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library.
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Grindley
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Grindley
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Grindley
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Grindley
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Grindley
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Grindley
Digital gallery of
Private George Henry Grindley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 96 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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