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Military service
Service number:
172001
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade
Division:
Eaton's Motor Machine Gun Bty
Birth:
December 8, 1891
Death:
October 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. B. 19.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Jane Smailes, of Craster, Northumberland, England.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Smailes
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Gravemarker
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Newspaper clipping
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Borden Dairy War Memorial
City Dairy Co. Ltd. War Memorial, Niagara Street, Toronto, Ontario. The first World War names listed were employed by the City Dairy Co. Ltd. This dairy was acquired by the Borden Company after the war. World War Two names for Borden Company employees were added at a later date. Donated by the Borden Company to the Canadian Corps Association and moved to 201 Niagara Street. -
Photo of ROBERT SMAILES
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 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Smailes
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Smailes
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Smailes
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Smailes
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Smailes
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Smailes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 163 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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