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Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mcdonnell Thomson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mcdonnell Thomson
Image gallery
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In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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University of Manitoba Roll of Honour 1914-1918. Winnipeg, 1923. Roll of the Fallen (pg. 25) - THOMSON, Robert McDonnell: M.A. 1893; LL.B. 1888; Enlisted Dec. 1914; Lieut.-Col. 43rd Battn.; Service in France; Mentioned in Despatches; Died of wounds 8-10-16.
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Col Thomson, in a series of family photos in Winnipeg. I have a photo of him with his parents, and nephew Norman AT Young as well.
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From a World War 1 issue of the Free Press Prairie Farmer newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 173 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France
Albert is a town on the River Ancre in the Department of the Somme, 28 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION is on the south-east side of Albert and the junction of the roads to Fricourt and Meaulte, and the Extension is entirely enclosed by it.
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