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Military service
Service number:
739363
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
June 9, 1883
Whitevale, Ontario
Death:
May 5, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. F. 60.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Degear; husband of Rose Hilda Degear, of Dunnville, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Russell Degear
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Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 435 of 1036. -
Coupure de presse
From the London Free Press May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Russell Degear
Digital gallery of
Private John Russell Degear
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 226 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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