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Military service
Age:
41
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
87th Bn.
Birth:
July 3, 1875
Dubuque, Iowa
Enlistment:
October 11, 1915
Montreal, Québec
Death:
November 18, 1916
The Somme, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 3.
Additional information
Son of John Simon Lewis and Harriet Boyle Lewis of Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America.
Additional citations
Mentioned in despatches, London Gazette dated 2 January 1917.
Digital gallery of Major John Simon Lewis
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Newspaper Clipping
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Grave marker
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Photo of John Lewis
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Canadian Grenadiars Guards Memorial Book
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
Photo of JOHN SIMON LEWIS
Major John Simon Lewis Jr. Portrait. Killed in action November 18th 1916. Buried in Bapaume Post Military Cemetery. Somme France. -
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Major John S Lewis -
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From the Halifax Evening Mail November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Montreal Star c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Major John Simon Lewis
Digital gallery of
Major John Simon Lewis
Digital gallery of
Major John Simon Lewis
Digital gallery of
Major John Simon Lewis
Digital gallery of
Major John Simon Lewis
Digital gallery of
Major John Simon Lewis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 119 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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