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Military service
Service number:
C/65547
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 25, 1919
Port Whitby, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 5, 1940
Bowmanville, Ontario
Death:
July 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XX. C. 15.
Additional information
Son of Henry E. and Mary E. Watson, of Whitby, Ontario.
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John Allingham Watson (1919-1944) was born at Whitby on April 25, 1919 and was a resident of Port Whitby. In the Second Wold War, he was a member of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R.C.I.C. He was killed in action at Normandy, France on July 25, 1944. Courtesy of the Whitby Public Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France
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Private John Allingham Watson
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Private John Allingham Watson
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Private John Allingham Watson
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Commemorated on:
Page 473 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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