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Military service
Service number:
123073
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
July 26, 1891
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Donald Herbert Rankin
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Photo of Donald Herbert Rankin
Enlisted with the 70th Battalion in April 1916. Transferred to the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry. -
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) -
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
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Donald Herbert Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private Donald Herbert Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private Donald Herbert Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private Donald Herbert Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private Donald Herbert Rankin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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