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Military service
Service number:
104775
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
February 21, 1897
Enlistment:
Melville, Saskatchewan
Death:
March 18, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of James Canavan, of 27, Sutnmer Rd., Acocks Green, Birmingham, England, and the late Augusta Canavan.
Digitized service file.
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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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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private John Canavan
Digital gallery of
Private John Canavan
Digital gallery of
Private John Canavan
Digital gallery of
Private John Canavan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 380 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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