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Military service
Service number:
16581
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
October 25, 1889
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Metcalfe, of Preston, Ontario; husband of Kate Metcalfe, of 10A, Allendale Rd., Denmark Hill, London, England.
Digital gallery of Private James Edward Metcalfe
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Preston War Memorial
Preston Ontario Cenotaph. Dedicated November 8, 1926. The names of Preston soldiers killed in the Second World War were added in 1949. Inscribed: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PRESTON WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SHARED ITS DANGERS. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private James Edward Metcalfe
Digital gallery of
Private James Edward Metcalfe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 28 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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