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James Erskine Patterson

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James Gravemarker (image courtesy of Garth Woodward, findagrave.com)

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
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  • Service no: 312006
  • Rank: Sapper
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  • Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
  • Unit/Ship: Royal Engineers
  • Place of Death: Canada
  • Age at Death: 40
  • Date of Death: 09.02.1921
  • Burial Country: Canada
  • Cemetery: Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Mil.297.

Personal Information

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  • Mother:

    Isabella Paterson, 74 Nethergate, Dundee

  • Father:

    James Patterson

  • Siblings:

    Robert & Thomas

  • Spouse:

    Mary Jane Patterson, 3922 Logan Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba

  • Children:

More about James Erskine Patterson

Although James served in the Royal Engineers with the British Army his name appears both on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial and Wigney’s C.E.F. Roll of Honour. He was the brother of Driver Robert Patterson, 404335, 208th Field Coy, R.E. and C.S.M. Thomas Patterson D.C.M & Bar, 71860, 27th Battalion Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action, 03.05.1917.

For more information on James, visit, James Memorial

For reasons unknown James Patterson is not included on the original Dundee City Roll of Honour

Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson

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