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Military service
Service number:
163272
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
October 23, 1886
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of the late John and Elizabeth Wilson; husband of Ida Wilson, of 225, Quebec Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Wilson
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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) -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 351 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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