| Born |
September 27, 1895
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| Died |
May 29, 1917, Age 20
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| Force |
Air Force
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| Division |
5th Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps
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| Home Address |
555 Sherbourne Street
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George Dick was born in Toronto and attended Upper Canada College before entering UTS. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, like fellow alumni Wilfrid Tait and Harry Walker. In December 1914, he enlisted, and the following year, when he was only seventeen, obtained his commission in the 84th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He went overseas in June 1916, where he transferred to the 78th Winnipeg Grenadiers and spent eight months in the trenches. He then transferred to the 5th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, where he served a an observer and was wounded in the right arm at Vimy Ridge. He was killed during the Battle of Arras in a fight against an overwhelmingly superior number of enemy aircraft. He is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial and in his parish church, Saint Thomas’s Anglican, just across the street from UTS. “How well they fell asleep, like some proud river widening toward the sea/Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, life joined eternity.”
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