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Military service
Service number:
405215
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
September 30, 1888
Stockport, Cheshire, England
Enlistment:
August 17, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. A. 19.
Additional information
Son of Richard and Mary Elizabeth Cavill, of Stockport, England.
Digital gallery of Private Richard Cavill
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Photo of Richard Cavill
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Grave Marker
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CATCHPOLE TO CHIGNELL. Microform Sequence 19; Volume Number 31829_B016728. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 163. Page 129 of 958. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of RICHARD CAVILL
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Cavill
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Cavill
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Cavill
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Cavill
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Cavill
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Cavill
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Cavill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 65 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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