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Military service
Service number:
McG/53
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 1, 1895
Wellington, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Enlistment:
April 27, 1915
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of John Matthews of Laurier and Cartier Avenue, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private John Lawrence Matthews
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 8, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y259uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Lawrence Matthews
Digital gallery of
Private John Lawrence Matthews
Digital gallery of
Private John Lawrence Matthews
Digital gallery of
Private John Lawrence Matthews
Digital gallery of
Private John Lawrence Matthews
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 133 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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