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Military service
Service number:
138782
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
November 23, 1897
Death:
November 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private John William Perkins
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Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JOHN WILLIAM PERKINS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. 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) -
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 Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John William Perkins
Digital gallery of
Private John William Perkins
Digital gallery of
Private John William Perkins
Digital gallery of
Private John William Perkins
Digital gallery of
Private John William Perkins
Digital gallery of
Private John William Perkins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 147 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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