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Military service
Service number:
L/54854
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
South Saskatchewan Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 17, 1923
Rosthern, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 10, 1941
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 13, 1944
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. A. 19.
Additional information
Son of Jacob John and Anna Margaret Kraus; husband of Dorothy Anne Kraus, of Barrie, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Eldon Kraus
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Photo of John Kraus
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Group Photo
Public domain photo, from Saskatoon Public Library Collection, Hillyard Photo of a canteen. -
Cenotaph
Vespera Cenotaph -Barrie, Ontario -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Bayeux War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Barrie street named in honour of Private John Eldon Kraus with a poppy.
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Private John Eldon Kraus
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Private John Eldon Kraus
Digital gallery of
Private John Eldon Kraus
Digital gallery of
Private John Eldon Kraus
Digital gallery of
Private John Eldon Kraus
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 355 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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