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Husband of Nellie McKinlay, of Toronto Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
Digital gallery of
Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
Digital gallery of
Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
Digital gallery of
Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
Digital gallery of
Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was later found and placed at Cemetery #2. May he never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
Epitaph (John & Anne Stephens 2013)
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Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
The Concentration of Graves (Exhumation and Reburials) BURIAL RETURN shows that Private McKinlay was exhumed from trench map coordinates 51b.B.6.d.50.85, which places his remain northeast of the woods at Arleux-en-Gohelle, on the east side of Brandy Trench. Modern day GPS coordinates for that location are approximately 50.364486, 2.881878 (50°21'52.2"N 2°52'54.8"E).
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Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Clifton Howard McKinlay
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was later found and placed at Cemetery #2. May he never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Epitaph (John & Anne Stephens 2013)
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The Concentration of Graves (Exhumation and Reburials) BURIAL RETURN shows that Private McKinlay was exhumed from trench map coordinates 51b.B.6.d.50.85, which places his remain northeast of the woods at Arleux-en-Gohelle, on the east side of Brandy Trench. Modern day GPS coordinates for that location are approximately 50.364486, 2.881878 (50°21'52.2"N 2°52'54.8"E).
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 285 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 Pas de Calais, France
The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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