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Military service
Service number:
453703
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
9th Coy.
Birth:
February 20, 1892
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 32
Digital gallery of Private John Gilbert Wilson
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cenotaph
Private John Gilbert Wilson is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cenotaph
Private John Gilbert Wilson is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Orillia Times, 29 Nov 1917 -
Newspaper clipping
Orillia Times, 29 Nov 1917 -
Newspaper clipping
Orillia Times, 27 Dec 1917
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilbert Wilson
Digital gallery of
Private John Gilbert Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 351 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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