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Military service
Service number:
109101
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 4, 1893
Enlistment:
Paris, Ontario
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
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Attestation Paper (page 1)
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Attestation Paper (page 2)
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Newspaper Clipping
Clipping from the Toronto Star for 30 March 1917. -
Newspaper Clipping
Brantford Courier December 16, 1916. -
Paris War Memorial
An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR.<P> The original monument included lamps styled as flames on the posts at either side of the central Cross. An outer pair of monuments were added at a later date in honour of the Paris men who fell in the Second World War. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 669 of 1072. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Ball
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 50 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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