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Military service
Service number:
16757
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
April 23, 1895
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Samuel and Margaret Childs, of Mill Hill, London, England.
Digital gallery of Private James Arthur Childs
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 13, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y132uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 14, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y133uvic#mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Private James Arthur Childs
Digital gallery of
Private James Arthur Childs
Digital gallery of
Private James Arthur Childs
Digital gallery of
Private James Arthur Childs
Digital gallery of
Private James Arthur Childs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 9 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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