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Military service
Service number:
404861
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Margaret E. McGeary (formerly Hunt). of 37, Sheldrake Boulevard, Toronto, and the late Joseph Marshall Hunt.
Digital gallery of Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
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Plaque
1914-1918 Memorial tablet, Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, 300 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario. This congregation was established in 1887, and in 1925 became the Bloor Street United Church. The tablet was unveiled on May 16th, 1920. It was inscribed: "In memory of the men of Bloor Street Presbyterian Church who went out to battle and died for Freedom's cause. They feared not Death and meeting it they won the Victor's Crown." -
Roll of Honour
Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. Pte. V. K. Hunt's name appears on the Honour Roll for McIntyre Son & Co. Limited, Importers of Dry Goods, Montreal. -
Photo of VEMER KINGSBOROUGH HUNT
Served with the 35th Battalion CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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) -
Vimy 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
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
Digital gallery of
Private Verner Kingsborough Hunt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 106 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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