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Military service
Service number:
L/67264
Age:
36
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Saskatoon Light Infantry (M.G.), R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 31, 1907
Strasbourg, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
October 12, 1942
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 24, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. B. 13.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Walter and Edith Johnston; husband of Florence Marie Johnston, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Russell Johnston
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Obituary
Obituary - WILLIAM RUSSELL JOHNSTON -
Entrance
Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Battle field
This is the Area where the William Russell Johston died on 24 November 1943
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Russell Johnston
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Russell Johnston
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Russell Johnston
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Russell Johnston
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Russell Johnston
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 175 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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