Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Peter and Catherine Matwiy; brother of Miss Elsie Matwiy, of Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
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Private John Matwiy
From the Owen Sound Sun Times August 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Matwiy
This article appeared in the Barrie Examiner newspaper (Barrie, Ontario), at page 12, on August 30, 1945.
Digital gallery of
Private John Matwiy
This article appeared in the Barrie Examiner newspaper (Barrie, Ontario), at page 9, on August 23, 1945.
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Private John Matwiy
Private John Matwiy's grave marker in Barrie Union Cemetery, 338 Sunnidale Road, Barrie, Ontario. (Note: the main entrance to the cemetery is on Cundles Road West.) A personal message near the bottom of the stone reads, "DID NOT THAT SHELL COME FROM THE HAND OF GOD? HE WILLED IT SHOULD BE SO R.I.P." (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2015.)
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From the Owen Sound Sun Times August 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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This article appeared in the Barrie Examiner newspaper (Barrie, Ontario), at page 12, on August 30, 1945.
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This article appeared in the Barrie Examiner newspaper (Barrie, Ontario), at page 9, on August 23, 1945.
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Private John Matwiy's grave marker in Barrie Union Cemetery, 338 Sunnidale Road, Barrie, Ontario. (Note: the main entrance to the cemetery is on Cundles Road West.) A personal message near the bottom of the stone reads, "DID NOT THAT SHELL COME FROM THE HAND OF GOD? HE WILLED IT SHOULD BE SO R.I.P." (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2015.)
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 540 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BARRIE UNION CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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