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Military service
Service number:
463687
Age:
37
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
14th Bn.
Birth:
September 8, 1879
Enlistment:
Vernon, British Columbia
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Sivert J. and Martha M. Blomlie
Digital gallery of Private John Arnold Blomlie
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War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
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) -
Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private John Arnold Blomlie
Digital gallery of
Private John Arnold Blomlie
Digital gallery of
Private John Arnold Blomlie
Digital gallery of
Private John Arnold Blomlie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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