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Military service
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Pioneers
Division:
3rd
Death:
October 4, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. D. 21.
Additional information
Brother of Lieutenant Colonel William Renwick Marshall, who died during service with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment).
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Walter Sydney Marshall
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Family Headstone
Marshall Family monument erected in Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario. The following dedication to the Marshall brothers appears on this monument: 'Sons of William Marshall, killed in the Great War. Lieut. Col. W. R. Marshall, Ypres - May 19, 1916 in his 47th year. Lieut. W. S. Marshall, Courcelette, Oct. 3, 1918 in his 30th year. Their dearest lives for us.'<P> Lt. Walter Sydney Marshall was born in Hamilton, Ontario on February 21st, 1886. He had previously served three years with the 13th Royal Regiment of Hamilton. He enlisted in Montreal on July 25th, 1915. <P> Lt.-Col. William Renwick Marshall, DSO, MID, was born in Hamilton, Ontario on March 20th, 1875. On his attestation he noted that he had 21 years service in the Militia, and two years in South Africa. He enlisted at Valcartier Camp on September 20, 1914. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 18, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y267uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Walter Sydney Marshall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Walter Sydney Marshall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Walter Sydney Marshall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Walter Sydney Marshall
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Walter Sydney Marshall
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 132 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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