Military service
Service number:
65153
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
April 6, 1879
Death:
March 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 202.
Additional information
Husband of Martha Alice Cannon, of 3, Gillespie St., Sherbrooke, P.Q., Canada.
Digital gallery of Private John Richard Cannon
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Photo
Served with the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) CEF. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Monument de Sherbrooke
Cover of the original program distributed at the unveiling of the Sherbrooke WWI memorial on November 7th, 1926, and two images of the monument. The monument was designed by Mr. G. W. Hill of Montreal, Quebec with bronze figures cast in Belgium and granite from the Stanstead district. The bronze Memorial tablet lists 249 names. -
Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 65 of 1004. -
Photo
Served with the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) CEF. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Cannon
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Cannon
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Cannon
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Cannon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 64 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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