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• Name CANNING
• Initials JW
• First name JOHN WILLIAM
• Place of birth Selly Oak, Birmingham
• Country England
• Last residence Selly Oak, Birmingham
• Family Son of John and Esther Canning, of 81, Harborne Lane, Selly Oak, Birmingham; a sister, Margaret;
• Education Selly Oak Boys School St. Marys
• Profession Labourer at the Birmingham Battery Brass Foundry

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Birmingham
• Service number 45586
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 122nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 41st Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from Warwickshire

Death

• Date of death 6 July 1918
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVIII - F - 18A

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