Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Corporal John William Sharley
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Gravemarker
Photo courtesy of N. Bruce Cameron, Winnipeg, 2004. -
Cemetery
Photo of Cross of Sacrifice and veterans' graves at Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, MB.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 212 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada
The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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