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Service militaire
Numéro de service :
426708
Âge :
23
Grade :
Caporal
Force :
Armée
Unité/Régiment :
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division :
13th Bn.
Décès :
1 mai 1918
Lieu de l’enterrement/commemoration
Informations Complémentaires
Fils de W. T. et Abigail J. Gilchrist, de Pictou, Nouvelle-Écosse.
Galerie numérique de Caporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
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Photo of Thomas Gray Gilchrist
The man in the centre is Thomas Gray Gilchrist, aged 19. He went out west from Pictou, Nova Scotia for a year to be a teacher in Regina before he signed up with the 13th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). He hadn't liked teaching much, and was excited to be going into action. He was a young man, of course, and the nation was crazy about war as an adventure in those days. A shell hit his trench, and he convalesced in Glasgow. He returned to the front, only to be wounded again, in the hip, and was lost in France; rescuers could not find him when they returned to where they'd seen him fall. That was on the first day of May, in 1918. He was 23 years old.<br> His brother Alec, to the left, came home with a metal plate in his head and spent many subsequent years in military hospitals.<br>The brother to his right is Don, who lived to realize a career as a renowned educator in Nova Scotia. -
Vimy Memorial
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Vimy Memorial
Galerie numérique de
Caporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
Galerie numérique de
Caporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
Galerie numérique de
Caporal Thomas Gray Gilchrist
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