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Military service
Service number:
769932
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn
Death:
August 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. F. 5.
Digital gallery of Private James Matchell Gordon
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of James Gordon
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Death Penny
"Death Penny" -
Group Photo
Pte Charles Alexander Gordon standing next to his brother Pte. James M. Gordon. Photo taken in Toronto, ON sometime after March 8, 1916 when Charles had enlisted. James had enlisted on January 3, 1916. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 416 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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