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Military service
Service number:
405320
Age:
31
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
4th Field Coy.
Birth:
July 4, 1884
Aberdeen, Scotland
Death:
April 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. B. 9A.
Additional information
Son of Christina Johnstone, of 561, Delaware Avenue, Toronto. Husband of Jessie Johnstone, of Toronto.
Brother of Private Robert Sutherland Johnstone, who died during service with the Canadian Labour Corps.
Digital gallery of Sapper David Johnstone
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Newspaper Clipping
Spr. David Johnstone and Pte. Robert Sutherland Johnstone were both born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Pte. Robert Sutherland Johnstone, 135924, Cdn Labour Corps, died October 2nd, 1917. In honoured memory of the Johnstone brothers. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of DAVID JOHNSTONE
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Grave marker
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Sapper David Johnstone
Digital gallery of
Sapper David Johnstone
Digital gallery of
Sapper David Johnstone
Digital gallery of
Sapper David Johnstone
Digital gallery of
Sapper David Johnstone
Digital gallery of
Sapper David Johnstone
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 110 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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