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• Name FISHBOURNE
• Initials J
• First name JOHN
• Place of birth Dublin
• Country Ireland
• Family Son of Robert Henry and Elizabeth (nee Wilmot); a sister, Frances; two half brothers, Peter Henry and William Charles;
  Husband of Mary Elizabeth Buckby, of 23, Andover Rd., Twickenham, Middx., England
• Profession Shipping Clerk
• Extra info Emigration to Canada in 1905; commemorated on the St Lambert Soldiers’ Memorial, Quebec

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 21 August 1916, Kingston
• Service number 349279
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit 5th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Enlisted in the Royal Artillery, March 1879, at the age of 15 years and 7 months; served in India for ten years; discharged 1893; re-enlists in 1900; after emigration to Canada, he enlists in 1916 and gives up a wrong age (43 in stead of 52); court-martialled on the 27th February 1917 for permitting the escape of a person in custody;
  
  

Death

• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n°17 CCS
• Date of death 1 November 1917
• Died at the age of 53
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - CC - 13

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