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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Driver John Greenough
Force:
Army
Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Battalion:
5th Brigade
Regimental Number:
85953
Rank:
Driver
John Greenough was born September 10, 1896 and lived at Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth Co., N.S. He enlisted with the 24th Field Battery in
Fredericton, New Brunswick. He served with a howitzer battery in France. He died of wounds at the 48th Casualty Clearing Station on August 10, 1918.
Date of Death:
August 10, 1918
Age at Death:
22
Cemetery:
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery,
Somme, France (Plot: )XIX. BB. I.)
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Somme, France
This cemetery was made after the Armistice when
graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area
and from the battlefields.
There are now 2,142 Commonwealth servicemen of the
First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 609
of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials
to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them,
and to 15 buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not
be found on concentration.
Commemorated on Page 419 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on September 8
Sources:
Library and Archives Canada (Attestation Paper)
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
Commonwealth War Grave Commission (Cemetery Information)
Canadian Great War Project
Veterans Affairs Canada
Additional Information:
“A Monument Speaks” A Thurston; 1989 (p 197)
Driver John Greenough