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Military service
Service number:
706638
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
September 15, 1893
Death:
August 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private John Watson
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of September 16, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y241uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
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 Daily Colonist of March 29, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y95uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
Digital gallery of
Private John Watson
Digital gallery of
Private John Watson
Digital gallery of
Private John Watson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 346 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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