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Military service
Service number:
57112
Age:
26
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
August 17, 1889
Death:
February 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. D. 58.
Additional information
Son of Arthur A. and Annie R. Gilham, of Canterbury, Kent, England; husband of Eva Gertrude Gilham, of Paris, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Cyril Herbert Gilham
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Paris War Memorial
Paris Ontario War Memorial. An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Newspaper clipping
Source: The Globe, Toronto Saturday February 19 1916 -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press Feb. 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Cyril Herbert Gilham
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Cyril Herbert Gilham
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Cyril Herbert Gilham
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Cyril Herbert Gilham
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Cyril Herbert Gilham
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 91 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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