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Military service
Service number:
312887
Age:
32
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
16th Bde.
Birth:
February 20, 1886
Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
December 28, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
January 24, 1919
Russia
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Son of Thomas and Mary Jane Worthington. Husband of Ellen Worthington, of I, Sunnyside, Duncombe St., Kingsbridge, Devon.
Digital gallery of Corporal Cecil John Worthington
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Memorial
Sadly the men of the 16th brigade Canadian Field Artillery where still fighting and dying in North Russia long after armistice was declared in France and Belgium along with the men of Syren Party and thousands of Canadians troops in Siberia in the forgotten theatres of the war from Sept 1918 to June 1919 -
Newspaper clipping
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Cecil John Worthington
Digital gallery of
Corporal Cecil John Worthington
Digital gallery of
Corporal Cecil John Worthington
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 545 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ARCHANGEL MEMORIAL Russia
The memorial is located within Archangel Allied Cemetery. The Cemetery is on the north-west outskirts of the town of Archangel, adjoining the Lutheran and Russian Cemeteries.
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