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Military service
Service number:
728
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
October 17, 1889
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
June 4, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Walter and Elizabeth Balfour, of 31, Upper Craigs, Stirling, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private John Balfour
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - October 2009 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of Death
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 649 of 1072.
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Private John Balfour
Digital gallery of
Private John Balfour
Digital gallery of
Private John Balfour
Digital gallery of
Private John Balfour
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 50 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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