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Military service
Service number:
29328
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Death:
January 28, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 10.
Additional information
Son of the late James St. Clair Harrold and Mary Alexina Gibson Harrold, of Orkney, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private David Gibson Harrold
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Newspaper Clipping
Attached to photo. David's father had worked as an architect in Boston, USA. David left Glasgow on SS Numidian for Boston on 29 September 1911, aged 17, joined up Val Cartier on 23 August 1914. -
Photo of DAVID GIBSON HARROLD
In memory of the employees of the T. Eaton Company that went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
Inscription of the name of David Gibson Harrold on the War Memorial at St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Image taken 7 July 2017 by Tom Tulloch. -
War Memorial
The War Memorial at St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Image taken 7 July 2017 by Tom Tulloch.
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Private David Gibson Harrold
Digital gallery of
Private David Gibson Harrold
Digital gallery of
Private David Gibson Harrold
Digital gallery of
Private David Gibson Harrold
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 99 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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