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Lieutenant W. Gordon Tough

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Date:

1914-1918.

Reference:

R9715-5-8-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4068441

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John Reginald Stratton collection

Lieutenant W. Gordon Tough
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Date(s):

1914-1918.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 photograph: 21.0 x 17.7 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Item consists of a portrait of Lieutenant W. Gordon Tough.

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Associated name: Tough, Lieutenant W. Gordon (1889-1918)

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Tough, Lieutenant W. Gordon (1889-1918) : Lieutenant, Canadian Heavy Artillery, born July 24th, 1889 and died of wounds on Sept. 16, 1918. He was appointed in the spring of 1916 to the 70th Battery, C.F.A., and went over seas with a draft in October. In February 1917 he proceeded to France, joining the 2nd
Canadian Heavy Battery at Carency. He was attached to the 3rd Siege Battery for the battle of Vimy, and then rejoining his own unit served with it on the Vimy Lens front till October and then through the battle of Passchendaele. After serving through the first half of 1918 on the Maroc front he took part in the battle of Arras. In September his battery relieved an Imperial unit at Villers Cagnicourt. Here he was fatally wounded by a shell as he was returning to his battery from the Brigade Headquarters, and succumbed to his injuries on the next day. Buried at Aubigny.
Source: Roll of Service, 1914-1918, University of Toronto, p. 139.

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Signature: in pencil, bottom right, recto: [illegible]

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Portraits

Source:

Private

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2001-01154-7
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]
Record must be consulted under the supervision of a photo archivist.

Volume [R9715]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 57

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit line: Library and Archives Canada / R9715-57 / e010775806

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