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Military service
Service number:
424203
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Battalion
Birth:
June 24, 1896
Death:
June 4, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Mary Sinclair Pickard. Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1913 with his mother and step-father, Peter Cartney, and settled at Hamiota, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private John Brown Pickard
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Press clipping
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamiota Echo January 10th 1918 Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Brown Pickard
Digital gallery of
Private John Brown Pickard
Digital gallery of
Private John Brown Pickard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 148 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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