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Military service
Service number:
878363
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
25th Bn.
Birth:
January 16, 1889
Points West Bay, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
April 28, 1916
Broughton, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 28, 1918
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. F. 2.
Additional information
Son of Rory and Mary (nee Holmes) McRae, of Glace Bay; Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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Photo de John McRae
Jack McRae 185th Cape Breton Highlanders -
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Jack McRae hunting in the woods at Points, Cape Breton Island, 1914 -
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Jack in uniform -
Carte Postale
Front of post card from Camp Aldershot Nova Scotia 1916 -
Carte Postale
Post card from Camp Aldershot Ns 1916 -
Carte Postale
Front-Post card from the 185th Cape Breton Highlanders -
Carte Postale
back-Post card from the 185th Cape Breton Highlanders<P> Text Angus MacDonald from Inverness -
Carte Postale
Field Service Post card found on Jacks body. -
New Testament found on Jacks body. -
Photo de JOHN DANIEL MCRAE
In memory of the men who joined the 185th Battalion (Cape Breton Highlanders) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 465 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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