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Military service
Service number:
1051186
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Birth:
May 13, 1886
Owen Sound, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 23, 1916
Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of John George Wilkinson, of 574, Church St., Toronto, Ontario. Husband of Jane Wilkinson (nee Cockburn).
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Earl Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private John Earl Wilkinson
Digital gallery of
Private John Earl Wilkinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 349 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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