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Military service
Service number:
645166
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
March 20, 1885
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Jane Dawson, of 2032, 47th Avenue East, South Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private John Dawson
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 87 of 1036. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Dawson
Digital gallery of
Private John Dawson
Digital gallery of
Private John Dawson
Digital gallery of
Private John Dawson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 226 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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