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Military service
Service number:
73953
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
February 13, 1893
Death:
April 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rankin, of Stratford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Leslie Rankin
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Newspaper Clipping
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Press Clipping
The London Free Press published this letter about Stratford men who fell at St. Eloi. Pte. George Leslie Rankin is mentioned in the article. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE LESLIE RANKIN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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
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
Digital gallery of
Private George Leslie Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private George Leslie Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private George Leslie Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private George Leslie Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private George Leslie Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private George Leslie Rankin
Digital gallery of
Private George Leslie Rankin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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