Military service
Service number:
530509
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
15th Company
Birth:
November 17, 1890
Salem, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
Montreal, Québec
Death:
October 31, 1917
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. B. 12.
Additional information
Son of Henry George and Katherine Baggs, of Salem, Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of Private John William Baggs
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Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 113 of 1072.
Digital gallery of
Private John William Baggs
Digital gallery of
Private John William Baggs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 194 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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