Military service
Burial/memorial information
Only son of Robert John and Margaret Tough, of 114, Glen Rd., Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Gordon Tough
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In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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In memory of the students from Parkdale Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario), who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Photograph - Toronto Star, October 29th, 1918.
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Photograph - Toronto Star, Sept. 21st, 1918.
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"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921.
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From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
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From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
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Tough family memorial located in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario. Lt. William Gordon Tough is remembered in the inscriptions on this monument.
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Inscription on front of monument: IN FLANDERS FIELDS / LIEUT. WILLIAM GORDON TOUGH / BELOVED SON OF / ROBERT & MARGARET TOUGH/ BORN 1890. DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE / SEPT. 15, 1918.
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Additional inscription on the Tough family memorial in Toronto provides details of Lieut. William Gordon Tough's burial location in France.
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Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 513 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Aubigny Communal Cemetery is south of the village of Aubigny-en-Artois and the Cemetery Extension is behind it. The village of Aubigny-en-Artois is approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol. After turning into the village from the N.39 on the D.75, the Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village.
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