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Military service
Service number:
827190
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
September 17, 1897
Death:
August 22, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of David and Christina Fair, of 1615, Camosun St., Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private John Herbert Fair
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Photo of JOHN HERBERT FAIR
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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) -
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 September 7, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y233uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Fair
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Fair
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Fair
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Fair
Digital gallery of
Private John Herbert Fair
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 235 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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