| Born |
January 2, 1898
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| Died |
September 10, 1918, Age 20
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| Force |
Army
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| Division |
23rd Bty. 5th Bde., Canadian Field Artillery
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| Home Address |
160 Madison Avenue
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Paul Pettit was born in Toronto and graduated from UTS before enlisting and going overseas in 1916. He served in France with the 23rd Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery for nineteen months until he was fatally wounded in September 1918 and died in No. 26 General Hospital in Etaples, France. His elder brother, Godfrey, was also an artillery man and lost an arm at Vimy Ridge. Pettit is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery and commemorated in his parish church, Saint Paul’s Anglican, as are his fellow UTS alumni Allan Denovan, Edward Booth, and Philip Williams. “And us they trusted. We the task inherit/The unfinished task for which their lives were spent/But leaving us a portion of their spirit/They gave their witness and they died content.”
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