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Military service
Service number:
730016
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"D" Coy. 4th Bn.
Birth:
October 28, 1897
Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Death:
April 3, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. C. 33.
Additional information
Son of David and Isabella Dewar, of Norfolk Avenue, Galt, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Taylor Dewar
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Group Photo
Left to Right: John Taylor Dewar; service number 730016, unknown, William Robb Dewar; service number 53902. Brothers. Date and location of picture unknown. -
Document
Commonwealth Graves Registry Page 1 -
Document
Commonwealth Graves Registry Page 2 -
Grave marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Grave marker
Marker for Private John Taylor Dewar, reg. no. 730016, 4th Battalion, C.E.F. Photo by his Great Nephew, Eric Edwards. Taken September 09, 2015 during a visit to his grave. May he Rest in Peace. -
Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Close up of Galt War Memorial
Detail of the Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial. -
Photo of John Taylor Dewar
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.<P> 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. -
Photo of JOHN TAYLOR DEWAR
Dewar, John Private. Enlisted with 111th Battalion of South Waterloo at Galt, November 11, 1915. Presbyterian. Born in Leith, Scotland but had lived in Galt for years. He was a miller by trade. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewar, Norfolk Avenue, Galt. He died April 3, 1918 at the age of 21 with gun shot wounds in his arm, legs and chest. He was employed by the Galt Brass Company, Limited, Galt. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 137 of 1084.
Digital gallery of
Private John Taylor Dewar
Digital gallery of
Private John Taylor Dewar
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 397 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Fabourg-d'Amiens Cemetery is in the western part of the town of Arras in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle, to the south of the road to Doullens.
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