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Military service
Service number:
8479
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
June 9, 1890
Carleton Place, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 22, 1915
St. Julien, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Angus McPhee, of Carleton Place, Ontario. Brother of Archibald.
A casualties list, published in the Carleton Place Herald on 9 May 1916 stated that: The latest word received from those who survive, when the house that Capt W. H. Hooper and his noble boys defended until blown up, is to the effect that Pte Neil McPhee . . . lost his life in the explosion ...
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private Neil John McPhee
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Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Perth Courier for 4 August 1916. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of NEIL JOHN MCPHEE
Private John Neil McPhee, Son of Angus McPhee, of Carleton Place, Ontario. 8479. Unit: H Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent. Death: 22 April 1915 Western Front -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Neil John McPhee
Digital gallery of
Private Neil John McPhee
Digital gallery of
Private Neil John McPhee
Digital gallery of
Private Neil John McPhee
Digital gallery of
Private Neil John McPhee
Digital gallery of
Private Neil John McPhee
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 27 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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