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Military service
Service number:
1003607
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
8th Battalion
Birth:
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
November 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XLVII. E. 5.
Additional information
Son of the Rev. D. B. Marsh and his wife, Jean McPherson Webster. Husband of Bertha Irene Whitfield Marsh, of Claraday, Ontario. Native of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Obituary
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Ypres Salient
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Monument
Lt. James Webster March is remembered on the Marsh family memorial, Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Memorial
Marsh family memorial, Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Inscription
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Roll of Honour
Canadian National Railways - World War One Roll of Honour. James Webster Marsh enlisted in Montreal on November 1915 with the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion. A second attestation was made in July 1916 at Sault-Ste-Marie with the 227th Battalion C.E.F. Marsh indicated on both attestations that he had previously served four years with the 13th Royal Regiment of Hamilton, Ontario. A plaque in honour of members of the 13th Royal Regiment's service who died in the first World War hangs in the Lt.-Col. John Weir Foote, VC, CD Armoury, Hamilton, Ontario. Marsh described his occupation on his military attestation form as a Gas Engine Expert. He was described in a newspaper report as the Mechanical Superintendent of the Grand Trunk Pacific west of North Bay. In honoured memory. -
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Private James Webster Marsh
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Private James Webster Marsh
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Private James Webster Marsh
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Private James Webster Marsh
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Private James Webster Marsh
Digital gallery of
Private James Webster Marsh
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Private James Webster Marsh
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Private James Webster Marsh
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Private James Webster Marsh
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 290 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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