Military service
Service number:
117456
Age:
27
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
September 28, 1890
Shillong, India
Enlistment:
January 13, 1915
Clagary, Alberta
Death:
October 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of G. Oxborough of Manchester, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal John Oxborough
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Photo of John C. Oxborough
John C Oxborough, known as Chauncey to his friends, was born 28 Sep 1889, son of George William Oxborough, an Army Chaplain in India. He went to Canada before the war, after his Father remarried in 1895. Chauncey's brother, William Madden Oxborough, was also in the 2nd CMRs, but was wounded and ended up in Bristol Royal Infirmary, England and so survived. Chauncey died in the trenches from a shrapnel injury to his head. He was loved by his comrades and the letter home was written by JK Moffat. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens.
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Lance Corporal John Oxborough
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Oxborough
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 304 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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