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Military service
Service number:
1043004
Age:
26
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Railway Troops
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
February 20, 1892
Bear Brook, Ontario
Death:
April 22, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. O. 17.
Additional information
Son of David and Mary Nelson McElroy, of Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sapper Robert McElroy
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Memorial Plaque
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario -
Vars Cenotaph, Ontario
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Attestation Paper (page 1)
Attestation Paper Source Library and Archives Canada Soldiers of the First World War -
Attestation Paper (page 2)
Attestation Paper Source Library and Archives Canada Soldiers of the First World War -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Cenotaph
Vars ON cenotaph re-dedicated Sept. 18, 2011 with 12 posts added in front of the cenotaph honouring the soldiers mentioned on cenotaph. -
Memorial
Frederick George Buckland's plaque on one of the posts in front of Vars ON cenotaph. -
Memorial
Robert McElroy's plaque on one of the posts in front of Vars ON cenotaph. -
Memorial
Built in 1904 in Vars, the Knox Presbyterian Church building served at different times as both a United Church and Presbyterian Church. Closed in 1980, the church building and its artefacts were relocated to the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum. IN MEMORIAM 1914-1918 MATTHEW BARKLEY ROBERT McELROY WESLEY SIMPSON CHARLES WARD THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
Digital gallery of
Sapper Robert McElroy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 457 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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