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Military service
Service number:
410956
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
June 16, 1895
Death:
April 27, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1.A.58.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Anderson Proudfoot and Emmaline Proudfoot of 668, Gilmour St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Private Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
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Memorial
Lisgar Collegiate honour roll -
Photo of Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Grave marker
The grave marker at the Canadian Cemetery No. 2 is located by the grounds of Canada's Vimy Memorial. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres north of Arras, France. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Canadian Cemetery No. 2
Canadian Cemetery No. 2 - The Canadian Cemetery No. 2 is located on Vimy Ridge and is attached to the grounds of Canada's Vimy Memorial. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres north of Arras, France.(John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Epitaph
Epitaph (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
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Private Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
Digital gallery of
Private Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
Digital gallery of
Private Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
Digital gallery of
Private Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
Digital gallery of
Private Earl Gillespie Proudfoot
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 312 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 Pas de Calais, France
The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.
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