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Military service
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
Walkerville, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 11, 1915
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
September 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C . 7 .
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Everett St. Clair Ambery, of Windsor, Ontario.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Captain Colley Lyons Foster Ambery
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of COLLEY LYONS FOSTER AMBERY
National Progress Pub. Co. 1919 -
Newspaper Photograph
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Newspaper Obituary
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 46 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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