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Military service
Service number:
345126
Age:
23
Rank:
Driver
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
1st Div. Ammunition Col.
Birth:
November 8, 1894
Enlistment:
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
September 5, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. F. 13.
Digital gallery of Driver John Alexander Cardinal
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Memorial Plaque
Clyde Memorial Park in Lanark, Ontario. -
War Diary
Seven men were killed when a shell dropped during the evening of September 5th, 1918 in the lines of the 1st Canadian Divisional Ammunition Column. All were buried the following day on September 6th. Original War Diary entry. The men killed were: Dvr. Joseph Audette, 40768; Dvr. John Alexander Cardinal, 345126; Dvr. John Cliffe, 92915; Dvr. Reginald Frank Davey, 304113; Corporal Eaton Andrew Kitching, 86113; Dvr. David Simpson, 42740; and Dvr. Harold Alphonse Smith, 349023. A letter detailing these events can be found on the record for Dvr. Harold Alphonse Smith (Canadian Virtual Memorial). -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 157 of 1004. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Lanark Era c. 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Lanark Era c. 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Driver John Alexander Cardinal
Digital gallery of
Driver John Alexander Cardinal
Digital gallery of
Driver John Alexander Cardinal
Digital gallery of
Driver John Alexander Cardinal
Digital gallery of
Driver John Alexander Cardinal
Digital gallery of
Driver John Alexander Cardinal
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 380 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY CEMETERY (ECOUST-ST. MEIN) Pas de Calais, France
Ecoust-St-Mein is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, between Arras, Cambrai and Bapaume. The H.A.C. Cemetery is about 800 metres south of the village on the west side of the D956 road to Beugenatre.
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