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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
No. 3 Coy. 14th Bn.
Birth:
June 22, 1896
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
September 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Gavin Lang Stairs and Mary E. Stairs, of 37, South St., Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
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Memorial
Fort Massey Church Halifax -
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empty personal effect box -
Memorial
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) -
Photo of Gavin Stairs
Photo courtesy of West Hants Historical Society -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail February 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail February 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
Digital gallery of
Captain Gavin Lang Stairs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 166 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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