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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"B" Coy. 3rd Bn.
Death:
June 13, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Henry James and Mary Grasett, of Barrie, Ontario. Enlisted Aug., 1914; Gazetted Aug., 1915.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of Hugh MacKay Grasett
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Circumstances of Death
Circumstances of Death- Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "Lt. H. A. M. Grasett 3rd Bn" is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Cenotaph
Barrie, Ontario -
Photo of HUGH MACKAY GRASETT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Cenotaph
Barrie Cenotaph -
Memorial Street
Barrie street named in honour of Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett with a poppy. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Grasett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 94 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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