Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John Gillies
In memory of:
Private John Gillies
November 7, 1918
Saint-Boniface, Quebec
Military Service
147739
36
Army
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
78th Bn.
British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Additional Information
September 13, 1882
Scotland
July 9, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Husband of the late Marjorie Robertson Gillies of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Burial Information
WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY
Manitoba, Canada
Mil. 142.
The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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