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Military service
Service number:
453607
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
October 21, 1892
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. G. 12.
Additional information
Son of Alex and Mary Hain, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Private Norman Claude Hain, who died on April 30, 1918, while serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
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Newspaper Clipping
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Honour Roll
WWI Roll of Service includes names of all the members of the Victoria-Royce Presbyterian Church who served in the war. 55 men died as a result of their war service. -
Commemorative Plaque
WWI Memorial Plaque located in the Victoria-Royce Presbyterian Church (est. 1885), 190 Medland St., Toronto, ON. -
Commemorative Plaque
Humberside Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario. -
Photo of ALEXANDER WILLIAM HAIN
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
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 November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander William Hain
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 97 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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