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Son of Lt. Col. James W. and Ida E. Edwards Woods, of Ottawa, Ontario.
As a former member of The Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Aylmer, Quebec; Lieutenant Sladen is commemorated on a plaque in the entrance to the club.
Commemorated on the Royal Ottawa Golf Club War Memorial, Captain John Russell Woods Plaque and Captain John Russell Woods Window.
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Captain John Russell Woods
Capt John Russel Woods, of the Coldstream Guards, died of wounds Sept 16, 1916 from the Battle of the Somme during the Great War. His memorial window and plaque are at the All Saints Event Space in Ottawa. His death was mentioned in the Ottawa Citizen and in Canada Golf 1917.
He was a graduate of Ashbury College. His father LCol J.W. Woods commanded the Governor General Foot Guards.
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Captain John Russell Woods
Capt John Russel Woods, of the Coldstream Guards, died of wounds Sept 16, 1916 from the Battle of the Somme during the Great War. His memorial window and plaque are at the All Saints Event Space in Ottawa. His death was mentioned in the Ottawa Citizen and in Canada Golf 1917.
He was a graduate of Ashbury College. His father LCol J.W. Woods commanded the Governor General Foot Guards.
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The Royal Ottawa Golf Club erected a plaque honouring its members who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War.
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In memory of the Ashbury College alumni and staff who gave their lives in Word War I, World War II and the Korean War. Plaque erected in the Ashbury College Chapel, 362 Mariposa Avenue, Ottawa
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Capt John Russel Woods, of the Coldstream Guards, died of wounds Sept 16, 1916 from the Battle of the Somme during the Great War. His memorial window and plaque are at the All Saints Event Space in Ottawa. His death was mentioned in the Ottawa Citizen and in Canada Golf 1917. He was a graduate of Ashbury College. His father LCol J.W. Woods commanded the Governor General Foot Guards.
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Capt John Russel Woods, of the Coldstream Guards, died of wounds Sept 16, 1916 from the Battle of the Somme during the Great War. His memorial window and plaque are at the All Saints Event Space in Ottawa. His death was mentioned in the Ottawa Citizen and in Canada Golf 1917. He was a graduate of Ashbury College. His father LCol J.W. Woods commanded the Governor General Foot Guards.
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From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Commemorated on:
Page 575 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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GROVE TOWN CEMETERY Somme, France
Meaulte is a village a little south of Albert. GROVE TOWN CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres south-east of the village and a little west of the road to the neighbouring village of Bray-sur-Somme.
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