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Military service
Service number:
107252
Age:
22
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Signal Corps
Division:
3rd
Birth:
July 18, 1893
Melcombe, Bingham, England
Enlistment:
December 18, 1914
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
January 17, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. I.
Additional information
Son of Ernest and Frances Mary Groves, of Armstrong, British Columbia. Brother of Florence, Winnifred and Private Richard Ernest Groves, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, killed 27 March 1917.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
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Corporal John Stiby Groves (Courtesy of 'So Far From Home, Armstrong's Fallen of the Great War', Leonard J. Gamble, Author) -
Mémorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Corporal John Stiby Groves
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Stiby Groves
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 96 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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