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Son of Alexander Fraser Pirie and Hester Emma Pirie, of Dundas, Ontario.
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Goldwin Pirie's Bronze Memorial Medal. Issued to next-of-kin.
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Goldwin Pirie at around 12 years. Photo taken in Dundas, Ontario.
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Letter from King George expressing his condolences.
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Goldwin Pirie as a child. Left to right: Jean Booth Pirie, Russell Fraser Pirie, Elsie Gowan Pirie and Goldwin McCausland Pirie. Dundas, Ontario, circa 1896.
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Netley (Royal Victoria Hospital) in Southampton, England. Goldie Pirie died here on July 1st, 1915. He was admitted on May 12th.
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This ship took Goldie Pirie to England for his training at Salisbury Plain. The ship left Quebec City on October 3rd to sail to England as a part of the historic First Contingent.
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Private Goldwin Mccausland Pirie
Goldwin McCausland Pirie, c. 1914. He was born in Dundas, Ontario and attended Trinity College School in Port Hope. He was working at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1914 when he volunteered to join the 1st Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.). As a member of the 1st battalion, he was in reserve with the 4th battalion when the Canadians faced the chlorine gas attack on April 22, 1915 near Ypres. The 1st and 4th battalions made a heroic counterattack at 5:25 am on the following morning towards Mauser Ridge. Casualties were high. Goldwin Pirie was wounded in the charge and was eventually evacuated for care to Netley Hospital in England. He died of his wounds on July 1, 1915. He was popular and talented - a star rugby player at Trinity College School, and also played tennis. He wrote many letters back to Canada while he was at Salisbury Plain training camp in England and some of these were published in local papers.
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This card received in Dundas Ontario during the first Christmas of the war bears the only photo of Goldwin Pirie in uniform.
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Article published in The Dundas Star newspaper on July 8th, 1915.
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Photograph of Pte. Goldwin M. Pirie published in The Dundas Star newspaper on July 8th, 1915.
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World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan).
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In memory of the employees from the Canadian Bank Of Commerce (CIBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From Volume 1 of Letters From The Front produced by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Goldwin Pirie's Bronze Memorial Medal. Issued to next-of-kin.
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Goldwin Pirie at around 12 years. Photo taken in Dundas, Ontario.
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Letter from King George expressing his condolences.
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Goldwin Pirie as a child. Left to right: Jean Booth Pirie, Russell Fraser Pirie, Elsie Gowan Pirie and Goldwin McCausland Pirie. Dundas, Ontario, circa 1896.
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Netley (Royal Victoria Hospital) in Southampton, England. Goldie Pirie died here on July 1st, 1915. He was admitted on May 12th.
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This ship took Goldie Pirie to England for his training at Salisbury Plain. The ship left Quebec City on October 3rd to sail to England as a part of the historic First Contingent.
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Goldwin McCausland Pirie, c. 1914. He was born in Dundas, Ontario and attended Trinity College School in Port Hope. He was working at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1914 when he volunteered to join the 1st Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.). As a member of the 1st battalion, he was in reserve with the 4th battalion when the Canadians faced the chlorine gas attack on April 22, 1915 near Ypres. The 1st and 4th battalions made a heroic counterattack at 5:25 am on the following morning towards Mauser Ridge. Casualties were high. Goldwin Pirie was wounded in the charge and was eventually evacuated for care to Netley Hospital in England. He died of his wounds on July 1, 1915. He was popular and talented - a star rugby player at Trinity College School, and also played tennis. He wrote many letters back to Canada while he was at Salisbury Plain training camp in England and some of these were published in local papers.
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This card received in Dundas Ontario during the first Christmas of the war bears the only photo of Goldwin Pirie in uniform.
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Article published in The Dundas Star newspaper on July 8th, 1915.
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Photograph of Pte. Goldwin M. Pirie published in The Dundas Star newspaper on July 8th, 1915.
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World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'DYING AND BEHOLD WE LIVE', and 'So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.' (John Bunyan).
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In memory of the employees from the Canadian Bank Of Commerce (CIBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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From Volume 1 of Letters From The Front produced by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Hamilton Spectator 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 32 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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