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Military service
Service number:
928739
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
January 23, 1883
Enlistment:
Fergus, Ontario
Death:
July 18, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 20.
Additional information
Son of David and Jean Cooper Collie.
Digital gallery of Private James Collie
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Circumstances of Death Card: "Killed in Action" Was one of a party of eleven holding an outpost in front of Tilloy Trench, when the enemy made an attack, and Private Collie was shot through the had and instantly killed. -
Grave Marker
Source: http://153rdwellington.com/ -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press July 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private James Collie
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Private James Collie
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Private James Collie
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Commemorated on:
Page 387 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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