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Corporal John Christie

Military service

Service number: 424668
Age: 41
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Railway Troops
Division: 45th Company
Birth: July 8, 1879 Lossiemouth, Scotland
Enlistment: May 15, 1915 Manitoba
Death: January 13, 1921

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Mil. 306.
Additional information

Son of John and Ann Grant Christie, of Knockando, Scotland. Brother of James. He single and a labourer. Discharged on 13 April 1919.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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