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Military service
Service number:
171688
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
December 2, 1896
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
August 11, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private John Squires
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Photo of John Squires
This photo was taken shortly before John Squires enlisted. He was 15 years old when he was enlisted. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JOHN SQUIRES
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Squires
Digital gallery of
Private John Squires
Digital gallery of
Private John Squires
Digital gallery of
Private John Squires
Digital gallery of
Private John Squires
Digital gallery of
Private John Squires
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 166 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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