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Military service
Service number:
3106416
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
78th Bn.
Birth:
August 20, 1885
Coatbridge, Scotland
Enlistment:
January 5, 1918
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
September 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 35
Additional information
Son of William Boyd and Maggie Malcolm Johnston.
Digital gallery of Private Alexander Johnston
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Photo of Alexander Johnston
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator October 1918........Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Alexander Johnston
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Johnston
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Johnston
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Johnston
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 437 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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