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Military service
Service number:
443097
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
November 9, 1896
Death:
November 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of G. A. Thompson, of Prince George, British Columbia. Enlisted in 1915
Digital gallery of Private George Purvis Thompson
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Purvis Thompson
Digital gallery of
Private George Purvis Thompson
Digital gallery of
Private George Purvis Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 338 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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