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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Battalion
Enlistment:
August 4, 1914
Death:
April 23, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of William and Mary Glover, of Orillia, Ontario. Brother of Albert Glover.
Additional citations
The London Gazette No. 29200 dated June 22, 1915
Digital gallery of Captain John Donald Glover
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Photo of JOHN DONALD GLOVER
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping (2)
Clipping from the Toronto Star for 27 April 1915, page 5. -
Newspaper Clipping (3)
Clipping from the Toronto Star for 28 April 1915. -
4th Bn casualties on Menin Gate Memorial.
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield. -
Memorial
The west side of the Glover Family gravemarker, in the Gamebridge Knox Cemetery, Ramara Township, Simcoe County, Ontario, pays tribute to the sacrifice their sons, made in the Second Battle of Ypres. "They gave their lives gloriously defending Home, King, and Country" -
Photo of JOHN DONALD GLOVER
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JOHN DONALD GLOVER
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cenotaph
Captain John Donald Glover is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON -
Cenotaph
Captain John Donald Glover is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON -
Newspaper clipping
Orillia Times, 29 Apr 1915 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Berlin (Ontario) News Record newspaper 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Journal June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
Digital gallery of
Captain John Donald Glover
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 16 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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