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Military service
Service number:
292230
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
November 6, 1896
Death:
April 20, 1917
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Additional information
Son of Robert and Effie Hansley, of West Point, Saskatchewan. Brother of Edward Burrows Hansley who died on March 9, 1945 while serving with the
South Saskatchewan Regiment.
Digital gallery of Private John Robert Hansley
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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John sitting and L E Green standing. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. 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)
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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)
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Group Photo
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Robert Hansley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 251 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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