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• Name METCALFE
• Initials JW
• First name JOHN WESLEY
• Place of birth Bowsman
• Country Manitoba, Canada
• Family Son of Richard and Isabella Metcalfe, of Bowsman River, Manitoba.
• Profession Farmer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 29 January 1917, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Service number 2114972
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 27th Bn. Manitoba (City of Winnipeg) Regiment
• Division - Brigade 6th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wound chest, received at Passchendaele, at n°17 CCS
• Date of death 8 November 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - CC - 30

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