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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
May 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 9.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Alice Mary Cole, of St. Leonards-on-Sea. England.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Charles Edward Cole
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All Saints' Church Montage
All Saints' Church was established in 1872 as an Anglican church and is located at 315 Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. 196 members of the church served in World War I, and 28 lost their lives. The 1922 WWI memorial tablet can be seen in this photo. -
Commemorative Plaque
"The bronze memorial tablet, sacred to the memory of those members of our congregation, who laid down their lives in the recent great war, and subscribed for by the members of the congregation"-this statement appeared in a 1922 church publication. -
Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CLEAL TO CONNOLLY. Microform Sequence 21; Volume Number 31829_B016730. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 653 of 1384.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 218 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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