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Military service
Service number:
102316
Age:
43
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
102nd Bn.
Birth:
March 8, 1876
Death:
June 12, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 26.
Additional information
Son of Isaac and Maria Drinkwater.
Digital gallery of Private James Peter Drinkwater
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 939 of 1076. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 22, 1917. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y167uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Photo of JAMES PETER DRINKWATER
From the Daily Colonist of July 1, 1917. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y175uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
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Private James Peter Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private James Peter Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private James Peter Drinkwater
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.
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