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Military service
Age:
57
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Birth:
May 15, 1886
Aurora, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 5, 1941
Death:
September 11, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot U. Lot 214.
Additional information
Husband of Helen Coleman Doorty Calhoun, of Aurora.
Digital gallery of Major John Campbell Calhoun
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me -
Grave marker plaque
Photo courtesy of Craig B.Cameron, Padre, 25 (Toronto) Field Ambulance, January, 2005. -
Declaration Form
Officer's declaration for W.W.I C.E.F. service overseas. -
Attestation Paper
Attestation paper for W.W.I service. -
Newspaper Clipping
Clipping from the Toronto Star for 1 April 1915. -
Newspaper Clipping (2)
Clipping from the Toronto Star for 13 September 1943. -
Newspaper Clipping (3)
Clipping from an unidentified newspaper for early September 1943. -
Photo of John Campbell Calhoun
Entry for Calhoun from the Varsity Magazine Supplement, 1916 issue. This magazine was published by the Students' Administrative Council in 4 issues during the years of the First World War. -
Document
Calhoun's signature from inside front cover of Torontonensis, University of Toronto's yearbook, 1906. -
Photo of John Campbell Calhoun
Detail from composite photo of Medicine grads, from Torontonensis, University of Toronto's yearbook, 1906. Calhoun's photo is believed to be the one in the middle at the right side. -
Biography
Entry summarizing Calhoun's service during the First World War, from: University of Toronto Roll of Service 1914-1918, p. 214.
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
Digital gallery of
Major John Campbell Calhoun
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 142 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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