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Military service
Service number:
772178
Age:
32
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
11th Bn.
Birth:
June 16, 1886
Death:
September 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. A. 59.
Additional information
Son of Sarah J. Watson, of Paris, Ontario, Canada, and the late John J. Watson.
Digital gallery of Sapper John Francis Leo Watson
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Paris War Memorial
Paris Ontario War Memorial. An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England
Digital gallery of
Sapper John Francis Leo Watson
Digital gallery of
Sapper John Francis Leo Watson
Digital gallery of
Sapper John Francis Leo Watson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 519 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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