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Lt. Leroy John Duthie
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company
from:Toronto, Canada
My grandfather, Lieutenant Leroy Duthie, joined the C.E.F. in the summer of 1916. After sailing to England in September 1916, he joined his fellow Tunnelers on the Western Front in February 1917. He remained with this team through the Battle of Messines Ridge (7th of June 1917) and until disbandment of the unit in June 1918. Lt Duthie demobilized in Toronto, Canada, in February 1919. He raised a family of five children in Weston, Ontario (now Toronto), and died in 1963 at the age of 74.

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