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Military service
Service number:
A/117374
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Highland Light Infantry of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
September 19, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
5. E. 10.
Additional information
Son of Alex and Eleanor Cote, of Windsor, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Cote
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Photo of John Cote
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Photo 2 of John Cote
This is a copy of a photo of John "Mack" Cote taken during combat and printed in the Toronto Star newspaper.<P> Some soldiers were reading that newspaper while riding a train in Ontario. I, Mack's sister Geraldine, was also on the train and recognized my brother's photo. I cut it out and later our father, Alex Cote, after receiving permission from officials in Ottawa, was able to obtain a copy from the newpaper. Mack was killed in action a couple of weeks after the photo was taken.<P> My grandson, Steven Ouellette, having seen this photo displayed in my home, recognized it in a library book at Trent University in Peterborough, ON during his History studies there. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Windsor Daily Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Cote
Digital gallery of
Private John Cote
Digital gallery of
Private John Cote
Digital gallery of
Private John Cote
Digital gallery of
Private John Cote
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Commemorated on:
Page 280 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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