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Military service
Service number:
925138
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Birth:
April 11, 1894
Lambton County, Ontario
Enlistment:
Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 4.
Additional information
Son of Mathew and Elizabeth Brown Coubrough, of Ogema, Saskatchewan. Brother of Private Simon Peter Coubrough, who died on May 2, 1917, while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private John Brown Coubrough
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Photo of John Coubrough
John Brown Coubrough, photo taken about 1917, possibly in Paris, France. John was the 8th of 16 children of Mathew Coubrough and Elizabeth Brown, of Ogema, Saskatchewan. He was one of four brothers who served overseas. John and his next younger brother, Simon Peter, did not come home, but the other two did. John was 5' 7" tall, and had dark brown hair and grey eyes. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 391 of 900. -
Grave Marker
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Morning Leader c1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Brown Coubrough
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Private John Brown Coubrough
Digital gallery of
Private John Brown Coubrough
Digital gallery of
Private John Brown Coubrough
Digital gallery of
Private John Brown Coubrough
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 390 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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