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Military service
Service number:
410687
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Enlistment:
Lindsay, Ontario
Death:
September 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. 25.
Additional information
Son of William and Ellen Biggs, of Birmingham, England; husband of Lily Mary Biggs, of 817, Eric Terrace, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Biggs
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Photo of JOHN BIGGS
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Keith Boswell, England -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JOHN BIGGS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Biggs
Digital gallery of
Private John Biggs
Digital gallery of
Private John Biggs
Digital gallery of
Private John Biggs
Digital gallery of
Private John Biggs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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