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Military service
Service number:
63253
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
14th Bn.
Death:
June 3, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of David Drysdale and Mary A. Hutchinson, his wife, of Montreal. Enlisted in October 1914.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Arthur Carmichael Drysdale
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 1065 of 1076. His grave was located near the Valley Cottages border of Maple Copse. Subsequently, his grave could not be found, hence, his sacrifice is commemorated on the MENIN GATE MEMORIAL. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Arthur Carmichael Drysdale
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Arthur Carmichael Drysdale
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Arthur Carmichael Drysdale
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Arthur Carmichael Drysdale
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 80 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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