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Private Percy Edward Vaughan Plaque

Municipality/Province: Manotick, ON

Memorial number: 35050-138

Type: Plaque; bronze

Address: 1138 Bridge Street

Location: Inside St. James Anglican Church

GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.2270789   Long: -75.6853644

Submitted by: Richard Turcotte

Photo credit: Richard Turcotte

This bronze plaque is dedicated to the memory of Private Percy Edward Vaughan. He was born in June 1893 at Kars, but was raised in Manotick. He died in February 1918, and is buried in the Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery Extension between Lens and Bethune, France.


Inscription found on memorial

[plaque]

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
PRIVATE PERCY EDWARD VAUGHAN
243RD BATT. C.E.F.
KILLED IN ACTION AT LENS IN FRANCE
FEBRUARY 22ND 1918
AGED 24 YEARS
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT
A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS” – ST. JOHN 15C, 13V
ERECTED BY HIS PARENTS

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