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Military service
Service number:
239549
Age:
22
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Seaforth Highlanders
Death:
February 12, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
44. G. 10.
Additional information
Son of Charles Pentland Tisdall and Amy Mary Tisdall, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Eric Charles Tisdall
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Inscription
Eric Tisdall was a student at Appleby College. His name is inscribed on a tablet on the Memorial School building, shown above. The building was built as a memorial to the members of the Appleby Community killed in the Second World War. Every Remembrance Day the school Cadet Corps parades at a service in the Chapel, built as a memorial to those members of the Appleby Community killed in the First World War, and the names on the Honour Rolls from both World Wars are read out. -
Memorial Doll
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2813 Lt Eric Charles Tisdall (RMC 1940) was the son of Charles Pentland Tisdall and Amy Mary Tisdall, of Toronto, Ontario. He served with the Seaforth Hughlanders. He died on Feb 12-1945 at 22 years of age. He was buried in the Reichwald Forest War Cemetery in Kleve, Germany 44 G10. -
Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2813 Lt Eric Charles Tisdall (RMC 1940) was the son of Charles Pentland Tisdall and Amy Mary Tisdall, of Toronto, Ontario. He served with the Seaforth Hughlanders. He died on Feb 12-1945 at 22 years of age. He was buried in the Reichwald Forest War Cemetery in Kleve, Germany 44 G10. -
Memorial Stained Glass
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2813 Lt Eric Charles Tisdall (RMC 1940) was the son of Charles Pentland Tisdall and Amy Mary Tisdall, of Toronto, Ontario. He served with the Seaforth Hughlanders. He died on Feb 12-1945 at 22 years of age. He was buried in the Reichwald Forest War Cemetery in Kleve, Germany 44 G10. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 571 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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