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Military service
Service number:
712460
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
78th Bn.
Birth:
June 1, 1897
North River, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
December 16, 1916
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Death:
September 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 2.
Additional information
Son of Frank Sanderson, of North River, Prince Edward Island.
Digital gallery of Private John Watts Sanderson
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Memorial
A granite obelisk memorial at cemetery, North River, PE is dedicated to Private John Watts Sanderson, a local soldier killed at Arras, France, on 2 September 1918. Photo Credit: Sgt. G.E. Gallant -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [front/devant] ERECTED IN MEMORY OF PTE. JOHN WATTS SANDERSON B COY., 105TH BATT., BORN AT NORTH RIVER JUNE 1, 1887, KILLED AT ARRAS, SEPT. 2, 1918 HIS NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE SANDERSON http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2512 -
Grave marker
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Cornwall's Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918) by Elizabeth Wilson
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Cenotaph
Cornwall Cenotaph
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Private John Watts Sanderson
Digital gallery of
Private John Watts Sanderson
Digital gallery of
Private John Watts Sanderson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 496 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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