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Military service
Service number:
G/50379
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 8, 1909
Peakes Station, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
March 11, 1943
Saint John, New Brunswick
Death:
December 11, 1944
Netherlands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. C. 8.
Additional information
Son of Patrick Francis and Priscilla Lafferty; Husband of Helen Catherine Lafferty, of Saint John, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Private John Lafferty
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of John Lafferty
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Grave marker of John Lafferty
Head stone in Groesbeek, Netherlands.<br> Rests among his comrades -
Photo with brothers
John with his two brothers. Left to right - Vernatius, John, Emanual. -
Newspaper clipping
John Lafferty kneeling down to clear german land mine. -
Grave marker floral tribute
Albert Bereke from Belgium laying flowers by proxy from John's nieces Ann Hannon and Joyce Holmans. Photo May 2002. -
Photo of sister
John's eldest sister Ann. Two other sisters, Tersa and Mary, had both died before age of three. -
Memorial
Letter from John, who guided my hand in this letter. -
Photo of John Lafferty's parents
John's parents, Patrick and Priscilla (née Dowling) -
Patrick Lafferty, father of John Lafferty.
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Photo of John Lafferty
This is John Lafferty. -
Group Photo
John's nephew and two neices. Richard, Ann, Teresa Bragel -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo
It is unknown who this person is. The photo was found in John's military service file. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Daily newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
Digital gallery of
Private John Lafferty
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 357 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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