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Military service
Service number:
51354
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
February 1, 1880
Paris, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 7, 1914
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
December 5, 1915
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Son of Henry Stuart Maus and Elizabeth Stuart Maus, of Paris, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Jairus Alexander Maus
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Paris War Memorial
Paris Ontario War Memorial. An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR. -
Memorial Plaque
The Paris District High School First World War Memorial Plaque was erected by the NU Omicron society in commemoration of former pupils who gave their lives in defence of Canada and the Empire 1914-1918. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of January 9, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y25uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
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Memorial
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Private Jairus Alexander Maus
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Private Jairus Alexander Maus
Digital gallery of
Private Jairus Alexander Maus
Digital gallery of
Private Jairus Alexander Maus
Digital gallery of
Private Jairus Alexander Maus
Digital gallery of
Private Jairus Alexander Maus
Digital gallery of
Private Jairus Alexander Maus
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 28 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PARIS PLAINS CHURCH CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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