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Military service
Service number:
9433
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
May 20, 1885
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 23, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. J. W. and Mary J. Davey, of 3rd Avenue East, Owen Sound, Ontario; Isband of Viola Durnan (formerly Davey), of 31, Pendrith Avenue, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private John Melville Davey
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Attestation Paper
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. John Melville Davey was named on the Roll of Honour for Mimico Lodge (Masonic), Lambton Mills, Ontario. Davey was born in Peterborough, Ontario. He enlisted in September 1914 at Valcartier, Quebec, in the first Canadian Contingent. In honoured memory. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JOHN MELVILLE DAVEY
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 553 of 1140. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
Digital gallery of
Private John Melville Davey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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