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Military service
Age:
34
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Forestry Corps
Death:
November 12, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
K. 884.
Additional information
Son of Robert Stanley Weir, K.C., D.C.L., and of Margaret Douglas Weir, of The Grosvenor, 756, Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal.
Digital gallery of Captain Douglas Weir
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Photo of Douglas Weir
Captain Douglas Weir. Unit: Canadian Forestry Corps. Death: 12 November 1918 Died the day after the war ended and buried in Edinburgh (Comely Bank) Cemetery. Home Front © IWM (HU 127243) -
Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Honour Roll
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Photo of Douglas Weir
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Captain Douglas Weir
Digital gallery of
Captain Douglas Weir
Digital gallery of
Captain Douglas Weir
Digital gallery of
Captain Douglas Weir
Digital gallery of
Captain Douglas Weir
Digital gallery of
Captain Douglas Weir
Digital gallery of
Captain Douglas Weir
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 520 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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