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Military service
Service number:
142534
Age:
39
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Esther Dockray, of 21, Emmett Avenue, Mount Dennis, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Dockray
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Milton Ontario War Memorial
Milton Ontario War Memorial (1926), Victoria Park Square, Milton, Ontario, Canada. -
Milton Ontario War Memorial
Names listed on the Milton Ontario War Memorial. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 857 of 1084. He was buried on the field behind the Sugar Refinery, near Courcelete. Subsequently, his grave could not be found. Hence his sacrifice is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Brantford Expositor 1916. Submitted or the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Dockray
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Dockray
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Dockray
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Dockray
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Dockray
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Dockray
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 78 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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