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Military service
Service number:
140010
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"A" Coy. 3rd Bn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Mary Alice Banks.
Digital gallery of Private John Wilfred Banks
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Newspaper Article
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Photo of John Banks
Caption (pg. 390): MEN OF PEEL KILLED DURING THE GREAT WAR. Author - William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto, 1935. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 893 of 1072 -
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the Project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
Digital gallery of
Private John Wilfred Banks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 363 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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