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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Death:
August 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. I. 5.
Additional information
Son of Dougald and Sarah Macpherson, of Orangeville, Ontario. Brother of Lieutenant Donald S. Macpherson M.M., Lieutenant Ewart G. Macpherson and Lieutenant Douglas W. Macpherson M.C.
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Photo of John Ross Macpherson
Captain J. Ross Macpherson, DSO, (top right) was depicted with his brothers in this illustrated plate from Vol. VI of the "Canada in the Great World War" series. These books reviewed Canada's achievements in the war and were published by United Publishers of Canada, Toronto, 1921. -
Press Clipping
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Press Clipping
Photograph published in the Toronto Star on September 5th, 1918. -
Monument
Orangeville (Dufferin County) Ontario War Memorial. -
Grave marker
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Captain John Ross MacPherson
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Captain John Ross MacPherson
Digital gallery of
Captain John Ross MacPherson
Digital gallery of
Captain John Ross MacPherson
Digital gallery of
Captain John Ross MacPherson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 465 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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