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Military service
Service number:
668214
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
2nd Mounted Rifles
Birth:
April 16, 1887
Ripley, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 11, 1916
Armstrong, British Columbia
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of John and Henrietta (nee Murray) McPhail of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Angus.
Digital gallery of Private John McPhail
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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. 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 Vancouver Daily Province May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John McPhail
Digital gallery of
Private John McPhail
Digital gallery of
Private John McPhail
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 288 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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