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Military service
Service number:
402255
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
Aberdeen, Scotland
Enlistment:
Kitchener, Ontario
Death:
August 17, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. O. 8.
Additional information
Son of James Macdonnell Bissett and Nellie Bissett; husband of Edith Minerva Bissett, of Bridgeport, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Mackessor Bissett
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 263 of 734 -
Photo of John Bissett
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Waterloo Memorial Booklet
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Biography
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Mackessor Bissett
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Private John Mackessor Bissett
Digital gallery of
Private John Mackessor Bissett
Digital gallery of
Private John Mackessor Bissett
Digital gallery of
Private John Mackessor Bissett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 369 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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