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Military service
Service number:
K/43510
Age:
29
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
August 1, 1915
Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment:
February 21, 1941
Vernon, British Columbia
Death:
September 17, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX, D, 12.
Additional information
Son of Samuel and Eliza Blackburne, of East Kelowna, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Corporal John Samuel Blackburne
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Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
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Cemetery
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy - May 2013 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy - May 2013 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave marker
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy - May 2013 -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal John Samuel Blackburne
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Samuel Blackburne
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Samuel Blackburne
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Samuel Blackburne
Digital gallery of
Corporal John Samuel Blackburne
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 251 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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