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Military service
Service number:
246468
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
June 11, 1897
Death:
November 3, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Phoebe Richards, of Billing's Bridge, Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private James Henry Richards
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Roll of honour
Lisgar Collegiate honour roll -
Photo of James Henry Richards
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Inscription
Inscription to the memory of James Henry Richards on the family grave marker in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario -
Attestation Paper
Source: Library and Archives Canada. -
Attestation Papers (Reverse)
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private James Henry Richards
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Private James Henry Richards
Digital gallery of
Private James Henry Richards
Digital gallery of
Private James Henry Richards
Digital gallery of
Private James Henry Richards
Digital gallery of
Private James Henry Richards
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 315 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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