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Military service
Service number:
B/48765
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth:
February 11, 1921
Chippawa Hill, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 19, 1940
Owen Sound, Ontario
Death:
May 16, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. B. 4.
Additional information
Son of William and Lilian John of Chippawa Hill, Ontario.
Brother of Private Ernest John, who died on February 16, 1941, while serving with Grey and Simcoe Foresters.
Digital gallery of Private Maurice John
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Cemetery
Entrance - Cassino War Cemetery - May 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cassino War Cemetery - May 2013 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Cassino War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Marker
Cassino War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Grave Marker
Photos taken during RCR and Signalers Battlefield Tour October 2010 -
Cassino War Cemetery
Photos taken during RCR and Signalers Battlefield Tour October 2010 -
Cassino War Cemetery
Photos taken during RCR and Signalers Battlefield Tour October 2010<P> -
Newspaper clipping
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Photo of Maurice John
From the Owen Sound Sun Times May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
Digital gallery of
Private Maurice John
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 345 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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