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Military service
Service number:
10800
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
December 19, 1895
Death:
April 23, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of William and Frances Maines, of Midland, Ontario.
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. James Maines was born in Muskoka Mills, Ontario. He enlisted in the first Canadian Contingent at Valcartier Camp in September 1914. His relatives were Pte. Albert Edward Maines, 454387, who died December 4th, 1919. Albert Maines' son, Pte. Wilbert Henry Maines, 249160, 208th Battalion C.E.F., died in Toronto on July 19th, 1916. In honoured memory of the Maines family. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private James Maines
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Private James Maines
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Commemorated on:
Page 27 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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