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Military service
Service number:
690854
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
52nd Bn.
Birth:
January 3, 1893
Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
April 8, 1916
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
June 29, 1917
Avion, France
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Son of Private Francis Smith, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) and of Jessie (nee Leggit) Smith of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private John Leggit Smith
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Private John Leggit Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 328 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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