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Military service
Service number:
439279
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
52nd Bn.
Birth:
February 12, 1894
Widnes, England
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Levi and Sarah Heaton, of Keewatin, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Heaton
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Roll of Honour
Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 254 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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