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Military service
Service number:
28561
Age:
25
Rank:
Piper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
March 16, 1891
Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
October 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of John Park and his wife Catherine Macgregor.
Digital gallery of Piper John Park
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of January 24, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y38uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Piper John Park
Digital gallery of
Piper John Park
Digital gallery of
Piper John Park
Digital gallery of
Piper John Park
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 145 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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