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John Dunlop
Lambert
20th August 1888
Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire
7th September 1916
Killed in action in the first action of the battalion on the front line after being called to relieve a position near Mouquet Farm on the Somme Salient where many problems faced them front the start including: heavy artillery bombardment, the loss of scouts highlighting the way causing them to get lost and lose men to the mud in the dark, an advance by Prussian Guards on the front, the loss of officers and many men
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Vimy Memorial, France
First World War
Private
14th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force
John was a tall athletic man who demonstrated prowess as a rower in Stratford where is remembered still. He left for Canada a few years before the war from where he then enlisted
