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Military service
Service number:
7849
Age:
29
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
May 19, 1885
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 23, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of John and Sarah Down. Husband of Priscilla Turland (formerly Down), of Frog Island, Leicester, England.
Digital gallery of Corporal James Down
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 659 of 1076. No record of burial.
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Down
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Down
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Down
Digital gallery of
Corporal James Down
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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