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Military service
Service number:
639898
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
February 3, 1898
Glasgow, Scotland
Enlistment:
Merrcikville, Ontario
Death:
September 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
290.
Additional information
Brother of Catherine Clinton.
Digital gallery of Private John Clinton
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Memorial Page
John Clinton is honoured on page 8 of the <i>Merrickville Remembers</i> booklet, published in January 2003. -
Merrickville Remembers
This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War. -
Honour roll
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll -
Grave marker
Whalley (Queen Mary's Hospital) Military Cemetery - May 2022 -
Other
Plaque - Whalley (Queen Mary's Hospital) Military Cemetery - May 2022 -
Badge
John Clinton, British home child, Almonte War Memorial -
Almonte War Memorial
John Clinton, British home child, Almonte War Memorial -
Biography
John Clinton, British home child, Almonte War Memorial -
Memorial
John Clinton, British home child, Almonte War Memorial
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
Digital gallery of
Private John Clinton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 217 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WHALLEY (QUEEN MARY'S HOSPITAL) MILITARY CEMETERY Lancashire, United Kingdom
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