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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Battalion
Birth:
April 6, 1889
Gananoque, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 18, 1915
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
August 15, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Officers 1962.
Additional information
Son of James Hartley Gordon and the late Mary Ball Gordon of Montreal, Quebec. Lieutenant Gordon was single and employed as an accountant.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
News article from the Calgary Herald dated 19 August 1918, advisng of the passing of Lieutenant Gordon. -
Document
Casualty record for Lieut. Gordon showing he died aboard ship while being transported to hospital in England. -
Award Citation
Military Cross Citation for Lieut. Gordon -
Attestation paper
Officer's declaration form signed in 1915. -
Document
Hospital record for Lieut. Gordon -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Leslie Farries Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 416 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NETLEY MILITARY CEMETERY Hampshire, United Kingdom
The Netley Military Cemetery is located in Hound, a parish and village on Southampton Water, 4 miles south-east of Southampton. It is a permanent Ministry of Defence cemetery of 17 acres, attached to the Royal Victoria Hospital. It was used during both world wars for burials from the hospital. It lies within a park maintained by Hampshire County Council on the site of the former hospital, and access is by way of a private road with a lockable security barrier.
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