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Military service
Service number:
541451
Age:
30
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Birth:
December 19, 1885
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Jane Cobb Pillow. Chartered Accountant. Winner of gold medal in final year.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal George Thomas Pillow
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
This article and photo of George Thomas Pillow appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram on December 2nd, 1916. In honoured memory. -
Roll of Honour
Dufferin School, Toronto, Ontario. A memorial plaque listing 48 former students who died during the first World War was dedicated at Dufferin School on January 20th, 1928. The memorial was unveiled by Thomas J. Bragg, President Dufferin School Old Boys, and dedicated by Rev. E. A. Henry, D.D., Chaplain Dufferin School Old Boys. The original 1876 school building faced Berkeley Street. It was torn down in 1925 and replaced with a structure on Parliament Street, and renamed as Lord Dufferin School. In honoured memory of the boys of Dufferin School. -
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) -
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
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE THOMAS PILLOW
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 148 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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