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Military service
Service number:
443606
Age:
41
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
54th Bn.
Birth:
November 27, 1874
Lanark, Scotland
Enlistment:
August 18, 1915
Vernon, British Columbia
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Margaret Baird, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Father of Elizabeth, Mary and Margaret. Mrs. Baird and her daughters came to Canada on a troop ship in 1919, after the death of Private John Baird, killed in action in France.
Digital gallery of Private John Baird
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War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private John Baird
Digital gallery of
Private John Baird
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 49 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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