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Military service
Service number:
839082
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
May 5, 1896
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of James and Isabella Ledingham, of Dornoch, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Morrison Ledingham
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Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Photo of George and John Ledingham
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 273 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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