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Military service
Service number:
727511
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
December 23, 1891
Enlistment:
St. Mary's, Ontario
Death:
August 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. G. 8.
Additional information
Son of George and Catherine Bolster (formerly Marshall), of Bailick Cottage, Ballinacurra, Co. Cork.
Digital gallery of Private George Christian Bolster
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Blampie to Booth; Mircoform Sequence 11; Volume Number 131829_B016720; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 155 Page 485 of 762 -
Photo of George Christian Bolster
Pte GC Bolster in 1916. Pte Bolster is commemorated on the St Marys Memorial at Town Hall on Queen Street East, St Marys, Ontario and on the Blanshard Township Memorial in Rannoch, Ontario, two kilometres west of St Marys. He is also commemorated on the Great War Memorial in St. Fin Barr's Cathedral in Cork City, Eire (Ireland) and on St. Nicholas Church Memorial in Cork, Eire (Ireland). The St. Nicholas Church has since been deconsecrated, and the memorial was removed and is currently in storage. -
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Private George Christian Bolster
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Private George Christian Bolster
Digital gallery of
Private George Christian Bolster
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 370 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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