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Military service
Service number:
877467
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
85th Bn.
Birth:
December 2, 1898
Lanarkshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
March 13, 1916
Nova Scotia
Death:
March 5, 1919
Rhyl
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
506.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gillan, of Florence, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Pte Gillan was employed as a miner before enlistment. He was not married.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 534 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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