The marker is in section 27, grave G 241.
N 45° 26.853 W 075° 39.509
PRIVATE
CDN FORESTRY CORPS
11 JUNE 1971
AGE 102
According to the Beechwood Cemetery burial registers, Thomas Langton, son of Thomas Langton and Mary Ann Croskill, was born in Yorkshire, England, 23 June 1868. In 1868, Benjamin Disraeli had become the prime minister in the UK.
According to his attestation paper for the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force, Thomas Langton (regimental number 2157350) of Montreal made his declaration in Ottawa in January 1917 to participate in the Great War. The British merchant ship SS Laurentic was sunk by mines in January 1917.
Langton died in June 1971. Protests against the Vietnam War are frequently mentioned in the newspapers of the day.
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