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John Balaam

Private

Service No. 441352

Age 19

Died on 24 April 1916

Canadian Infantry

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Elizabeth Bushnell (formerly Balaam), of 69, Princes St., Cowley Rd., oxford, England, and the late Thomas George Balaam.

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John, O valiant heart, your glory came in the Salient. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

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John, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment an...

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