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Military service
Service number:
B/131940
Age:
22
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Elgin Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
' A ' Sqn., 25th Armoured Delivery Regt.
Birth:
May 1, 1922
Toronto
Enlistment:
August 31, 1942
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 12, 1944
Italy
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. K. 13.
Additional information
Son of Albert Edward and Gertrude Rose Oates, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Jack, Albert and Hilda. Husband of Amelia Thompson Oates and father of Sandra, of Toronto, Ontario.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Trooper Raymond Oates
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Photo of Raymond J. Oates
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Newspaper Clipping
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Gravemarker
Temporary cross/headstone in Florence, Italy. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of RAYMOND OATES
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
R H King Academy
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
R H King Academy
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
R H King Academy
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Grave Marker
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Trooper Raymond Oates
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Trooper Raymond Oates
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Trooper Raymond Oates
Digital gallery of
Trooper Raymond Oates
Digital gallery of
Trooper Raymond Oates
Digital gallery of
Trooper Raymond Oates
Digital gallery of
Trooper Raymond Oates
Digital gallery of
Trooper Raymond Oates
Digital gallery of
Trooper Raymond Oates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 406 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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