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Military service
Service number:
18554
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
June 27, 1878
East Whiteway, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 17, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
June 15, 1915
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Husband of Ellen Tuck of Edmonton, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Private John William Dampier Tuck
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John William Dampier Tuck (Canadian Expeditionary Force (3rd Battalion), born 27th June 1878 in Dorset, England. He emigrated to Canada and arrived on 12th October 1906. He met and married my grandmother and they had my father on 7th March 1912. He enlisted (at Valcartier, Quebec on 23rd September 1914) in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force (service number 18554). He was mobilised for action with 101st regiment on 19th August 1914 and was killed in action on 15th June 1915, whilst serving with the 3rd Battalion. His name is commemorated on the Vimy memorial. -
Memorial
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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Private John William Dampier Tuck
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Private John William Dampier Tuck
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Commemorated on:
Page 39 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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