• First World War Commemorative Project
• Introduction
• The Memorial Service
• About the Project

Born	November 22, 1893
Died	September 28, 1918, Age 24
Force	Army
Division	Eastern Ontario Regt, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Home Address	388 Palmerston Avenue [Map]

Oswald Darling attended Trinity College in Port Hope before entering UTS in September 1910. He went on to study Applied Science at the University of Toronto but left after his second year to enlist in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Darling went overseas in early 1917, joining his battalion in France. He fought at Vimy Ridge and was badly injured, suffering wounds to his shoulder, side, and arm that placed him in an English hospital for a year. When he recovered, he volunteered again for service in France and saw action at Amiens and Arras. Less than six weeks before the end of the war, he was leading a Lewis-gun crew during the siege of Sailly, near Cambrai. After the fighting he was initially reported missing, but it was later discovered that he had been killed during the storming of the village. He is buried there, in the Cantimpre Canadian Cemetery. His sister Mary, a nurse, and his brother Gerald, a gunner, both survived the war.

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