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Military service
Service number:
32979
Age:
16
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
No. 2 Field Amb.
Birth:
September 13, 1898
Widnes, Lanchashire, United Kingdom
Death:
April 26, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. L. 36.
Additional information
Son of John and Annie McKay, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
All Saints' Church's Montage
All Saints' Church was established in 1872 as an Anglican church and is located at 315 Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. 196 members of the church served in World War I, and 28 lost their lives. The 1922 WWI memorial tablet can be seen in this photo. -
Commemorative Plaque
"The bronze memorial tablet, sacred to the memory of those members of our congregation, who laid down their lives in the recent great war, and subscribed for by the members of the congregation"-this statement appeared in a 1922 church publication. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Photo of JOHN WILFRED MCKAY
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Wilfred McKay
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 26 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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