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Military service
Service number:
736659
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
"D" Coy, 43rd Bn.
Birth:
August 5, 1892
Death:
May 24, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 2.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Margaret Morton, of Newmill, Castleton, Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. Born at Kinnettles, Forfarshire.
Digital gallery of Private James Mckenzie Morton
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Petit-Vimy Cemetery, near Vimy Ridge and the town of Vimy, France. May he rest in peace.(J.Stephens) -
Epitaph
Epitaph: "till the day break and the shaddows flee away" -
Cemetery
The Petit-Vimy Cemetery, near Vimy Ridge and the town of Vimy, in the Pas de Calais, France (J. Stephens)
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Private James Mckenzie Morton
Digital gallery of
Private James Mckenzie Morton
Digital gallery of
Private James Mckenzie Morton
Digital gallery of
Private James Mckenzie Morton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 298 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PETIT-VIMY BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Vimy is a village some 10 kilometres north of Arras and the PETIT-VIMY BRITISH CEMETERY is west of the village and a little west of the main road from Lens to Arras (N25).
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