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Military service
Service number:
820377
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
52nd Bn.
Birth:
July 17, 1896
Death:
November 12, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sp. Mem. 70.
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John Herbert Wilson, died at age 21 on November 12, 1917, and was buried at the Tyne Cot Cemetery, in Passchendaele, France. I was told that he was killed while in the process of taking the wounded off the battlefield. -
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Grave Marker
Tyne Cot Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cross of Sacrifice
Tyne Cot Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Tyne Cot Cemetery - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private John Herbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 351 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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