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Son of David and Ellen Branion, of 1230, Wyandotte, Windsor, Ontario. Native of Aylmer, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Bombardier John Branion
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Bombardier John Branion
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Bombardier John Branion
Newspaper clipping; source unknown.
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Bombardier John Branion
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable."
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Bombardier John Branion
Bracebridge Gazette 25-Apr-1918
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Bombardier John Branion
John Branion - photo taken from a poster that was created soon after the end of WWI to honour Aylmer and Malahide's fallen
Digital gallery of
Bombardier John Branion
From the London Free Press April 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Newspaper clipping; source unknown.
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"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable."
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Bracebridge Gazette 25-Apr-1918
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John Branion - photo taken from a poster that was created soon after the end of WWI to honour Aylmer and Malahide's fallen
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From the London Free Press April 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 373 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Neuville-St Vaast is a village 6.5 kilometres north of Arras, a little east of the road from Bethune to Arras. LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the south-west of the village on the north-west side of the road to the village of Maroeuil.
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