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Military service
Service number:
412758
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
26th Bn.
Birth:
September 29, 1886
Death:
June 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Laney, of England; husband of Alice S. Laney, of 153, James St., Belleville, Ontario.
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of John Laney
This photo was given to the son of John Earnest Laney (1886-1916), John George Laney (1905-1987), who gave it to his daughter, Jacqueline Alice Laney (1939-Living), who gave it to me, her grandson, Trevor Ronald O'Brecht (1995-Living).
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Private John Laney
Digital gallery of
Private John Laney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 116 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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