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Military service
Service number:
77386
Age:
34
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
March 9, 1881
Death:
September 27, 1916
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Son of John and Elizabeth Erskine.
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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) -
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John Erskine of Sooke BC , named on the memorial behind the Royal Canadian legion branch, 54 in Sooke, BC.
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Lance Corporal John Erskine
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Erskine
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 83 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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