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Military service
Service number:
877368
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
25th Bn.
Birth:
June 6, 1892
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
March 13, 1916
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
Death:
November 8, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of John McKeigan and Ann Way, of Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private John McKeigan
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of JOHN MCKEIGAN
In memory of the men who joined the 185th Battalion (Cape Breton Highlanders) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
In memory of the men who joined the 185th Battalion (Cape Breton Highlanders) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John McKeigan
Digital gallery of
Private John McKeigan
Digital gallery of
Private John McKeigan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 284 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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