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Military service
Service number:
487550
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
July 11, 1897
Marmora, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 23, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
September 15, 1916
Pas de Calais, France
Burial/memorial information
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Son of John Henry and Elizabeth Gillen Feeney, of Marmora, Ontario. Educated at St. Michael's College (Toronto).
Digital gallery of Private John Cecil Feeney
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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) -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of John Feeney
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of Pte J. C. Feeney PPCLI is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Affairs. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; submitted by K. Parks, Alumni Affairs. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
John is mentioned in this article about his father. From the Vancouver Daily Province July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Cecil Feeney
Digital gallery of
Private John Cecil Feeney
Digital gallery of
Private John Cecil Feeney
Digital gallery of
Private John Cecil Feeney
Digital gallery of
Private John Cecil Feeney
Digital gallery of
Private John Cecil Feeney
Digital gallery of
Private John Cecil Feeney
Digital gallery of
Private John Cecil Feeney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 84 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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