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Military service
Service number:
17417
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
October 19, 1892
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Enlistment:
December 2, 1914
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Frederick and Bertha Hamilton Peters of Nelson, British Columbia.
Brother of Lieutenant Gerald Hamilton Peters, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment) and Captain Frederick Thornton Peters VC, who died while serving with the Royal Navy.
Digital gallery of Private John Franklyn Peters
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Photo of John Franklyn (Jack) Peters
Photo of Jack Peters as a boy in Victoria, B.C. He was the first of three Peters brothers to die in a World War. Their father was Frederick Peters, former Premier of P.E.I. -
Photo of John Peters
Jack as a boy with his sister Helen and mother Bertha -
Memorial Plaque
Memorial in Charlottetown to Jack, his brother Gerald, his cousin Arthur and others killed in the Great War -
Certificate
Jack's death certificate -
Family Tree
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Photo of John Franklyn Peters
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Photo of John Peters
Jack Peters as a boy -
Letter
Pages 1 and 4 of letter from Jack Peters to his cousin Evelyn Poole April 13, 1915 -
Letter
page 2 and 3 of Jack Peter's letter April 13, 1915 to cousin Evelyn Poole -
Transcription
Transcription of J.F. Peters April 13, 1915 letter to his cousin Evelyn Poole -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
Digital gallery of
Private John Franklyn Peters
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 32 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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