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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
32
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Birth:
January 19, 1885
Glascow, Greenwichshire, England
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier
Death:
November 10, 1917
Passchendaele, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Mary Anderson, of Esquimalt, Victoria, British Columbia.
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Major John Gibson Anderson
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Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Service Roll (Page 1)
High School Service Roll -
Service Roll (Page 2)
High School Service Roll -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of December 7, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y312uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 27, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y119uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of March 3, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y72uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Major John Gibson Anderson
Digital gallery of
Major John Gibson Anderson
Digital gallery of
Major John Gibson Anderson
Digital gallery of
Major John Gibson Anderson
Digital gallery of
Major John Gibson Anderson
Digital gallery of
Major John Gibson Anderson
Digital gallery of
Major John Gibson Anderson
Digital gallery of
Major John Gibson Anderson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 191 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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