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Military service
Service number:
820945
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
June 9, 1896
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 4, 1916
Port Arthur, Ontario
Death:
November 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXX. M. 32.
Additional information
Son of the Rev. George Kennet Baker Adams and H. Alice Sutcliffe Adams, of Paris, Ontario. Lieutenant in the 141st Battalion, 1916; Reverted to Private on account of reduction of personnel.
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Roll of Service
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Photo of Joseph Adams
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Acta Victoriana War Supplement
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
Photo of Joseph Adams
Source: Acta Victoriana War Supplement, Victoria College, Toronto, Ontario, December 1919. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto was built in 1924 in memory of the men and women lost to the University in the Great War. Carved on the Memorial Screen are the names of those who lost their lives in that struggle. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who died in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXII is dedicated: "The Alumni Association and friends of Victoria College". -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the Project Operation Picture Me
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Private Joseph Reginald Adams
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Private Joseph Reginald Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Reginald Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Reginald Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Reginald Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Reginald Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Reginald Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Reginald Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Reginald Adams
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 189 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
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