Group portrait of WWI soldiers in front of the Alexandra Hotel, Colborne
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This hotel was named the Hotel Bristol at one time.
Visitor comment submitted (April 2020):
"Standing in front of the group is my father Captain William J. Troop from Cobourg who was sent to Colborne in 1916 to train a detachment of soldiers for the 139th Infantry Battalion , Canadian Expeditionary Force CEF.
The Battalion was headquartered in Cobourg and the men were recruited in Northumberland County.
The Battalion left for England on September 25,1916." - Notes
- Cramahe Archives does not hold the original item in its archives, but has a digital image.
Image scanned from a photocopy.
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 516ph
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 44.00012 Longitude: -77.8828
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Copyright, public domain: Cramahe Township Public Library owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image.
- Contact
- Cramahe Township Public LibraryEmail:cramlib@cramahetownship.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:6 King Street West
PO Box 190
Colborne, ON K0K 1S0
