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Military service
Service number:
135826
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
June 19, 1891
Death:
April 28, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. E. 18.
Digital gallery of Private Frank Postlethwaite
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Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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War Memorial
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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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of FRANK POSTLETHWAITE
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Postlethwaite
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 149 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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