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Military service
Service number:
141866
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 42nd Bn.
Birth:
May 4, 1888
Grimsby, England
Enlistment:
Owen Sound, Ontario
Death:
March 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sp. Mem.
Additional information
Son of Charles Briggs; husband of Lily May Briggs, of Owen Sound, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Henry Briggs
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Gravemarker
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Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Henry Briggs
Digital gallery of
Private John Henry Briggs
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 58 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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