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Military service
Service number:
79707
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
September 16, 1890
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter
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Photo of John Salter
John Salter was born in Hush in Devon UK. He immigrated to Canada in 1911 and settled in Calgary. He enlisted about 1914 and was killed in action September 15, 1916 -
Grave Marker
Grave of Abraham Elliot Salter at Tipton st John. Devon and Memorial to Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter -
Grave Marker
Grave of Abraham Elliot Salter at Tipton st John. Devon and Memorial to Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter -
Photo of JOHN ELLIOTT SALTER
Grave of Abraham Elliot Salter at Tipton st John. Devon and Memorial to Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Elliott Salter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 158 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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