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Military service
Service number:
136243
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
2nd Mounted Rifles
Birth:
January 30, 1892
Middlesborough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
August 24, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 29, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Joan Layman (formerly Unthank), of 18, Andrews Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of Private Leslie Ernest Unthank who died on October 13, 1915 while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private Richard Peter Unthank
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Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of RICHARD PETER UNTHANK
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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) -
Honour roll
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Peter Unthank
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Peter Unthank
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Peter Unthank
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Peter Unthank
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Peter Unthank
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Peter Unthank
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Peter Unthank
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 176 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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