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Military service
Service number:
880740
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
May 7, 1894
Death:
August 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 34.
Additional information
Son of John and Maria Witheford, of Blenheim, Ontario.
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Private John Franklin Witheford
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 525 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WINDMILL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Monchy-le-Preux is a village about 7 kilometres south-east of Arras and WINDMILL BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the south of the village on the north side of the main Arras-Cambrai road, the D939.
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