Son of Morris and Bertha Magner, of Toronto, Ontario; husband of P. L. Magner.

Cemetery: DIEPPE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, HAUTOT-SUR-MER Grave Reference/

Panel Number: K. 46.

Historical Information: There are now over 900, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly 200 are unidentified. Special memorials with the inscription "Known to be buried in this cemetery", have been erected to the memory of one sailor and one soldier of the United Kingdom forces, and ten soldiers of the Canadian forces. A soldier of the United Kingdom forces who was buried in Ste. Marguerite-sur-Mer Churchyard, but whose grave is now lost, is commemorated by a special memorial which bears the text "Their glory shall not be blotted out."

Son of Thomas Sydney and Evelyn May Magner, of Warren, New South Wales. Native of Stroud, New South Wales.

Cemetery: SPOILBANK CEMETERY, ZILLEBEKE Grave Reference/ Panel Number: I. K. 24.

Historical Information: The village and most of the commune of Zillebeke were in British hands during the greater part of the War; but the number of cemeteries in the neighborhood bears witness to the fierce fighting of which it was the scene, even under conditions of trench warfare, from 1914 to 1918

Son of Michael and Annie Magner, of 55, Windsor St., Paddington, Sydney.

Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31

Location: Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.

Son of Michael and Annie Magner, of 55, Windsor St., Paddington, Sydney.

Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31

Location: Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.

Son of Michael Magner, V.C. and Margaret Magner. Native of Launceston, Tasmania

Cemetery: BANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Grave Reference/Panel Number: V. D. 11.

Historical Information: The Cemetery was made (so far as the original burials are concerned) by the New Zealand Division in September, 1918. The original cemetery is now Plot I, Rows A and B; the remainder of the cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields East and South of Bancourt and from certain British and German cemeteries. The great majority of the graves thus concentrated belonged to the winter of 1916-1917, the retreat of March, 1918, or the advance of August-September, 1918.

Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 75.

Historical Information: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL 1914 – 1918 This memorial stands on Tower Hill, London, on the south side of the pleasure garden of Trinity Square. >From the 1914-18 Memorial, stone steps flanked by high stone pylons, on which are the Merchant Navy badges and wreaths, lead down to the sunken garden. Between the flights of steps is the main dedicatory inscription, which reads:

1939-1945

THE TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING

FLEETS WHOSE NAMES ARE HONOURED ON THE WALLS OF THIS GARDEN

GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND HAVE NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA

Son of the late John Magner

Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 42 and 43

Son of John Thomas and Jane Magner, of Birkenhead; husband of Margaret Magner, of 81, Elmswood Rd., Birkenhead

Memorial: PLYMOUTH MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: 25.

Location: The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which overlooks directly towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times.

Son of John Thomas and Jane Magner, of Birkenhead; husband of Margaret Magner, of 81, Elmswood Rd., Birkenhead

Memorial: PLYMOUTH MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: 25.

Location: The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which overlooks directly towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times.

Son of John Thomas and Jane Magner, of Birkenhead; husband of Margaret Magner, of 81, Elmswood Rd., Birkenhead

Memorial: PLYMOUTH MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: 25.

Location: The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which overlooks directly towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times.

Son of John Thomas and Jane Magner, of Birkenhead; husband of Margaret Magner, of 81, Elmswood Rd., Birkenhead

Memorial: PLYMOUTH MEMORIAL Grave Reference/Panel Number: 25.

Location: The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which overlooks directly towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times.

Cemetery: GOMMECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY No. 2, HEBUTERNE Grave Reference/Panel Number: IV. J. 6.

Son of Thomas Patrick and Mabel Magner. Born in Australia

Memorial: VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIALLocation:

Historical Information: The Australian National Memorial was erected to commemorate Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known. These soldiers fell in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras and the "Hundred Days".

Cemetery: WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAULTY Grave Reference/Panel Number: I. J. 9.

Historical Information: The site of the cemetery was chosen in May 1916. It was used from June, 1916, to May, 1917, by the 20th and 43rd Casualty Clearing Stations, in February, 1917, by the 1/1st South Midland, and from April till June, 1917, by the 32nd. The whole of plots VII, VIII, IX and X were filled in April and May, 1917, the months of the Battles of Arras. From June, 1917, the cemetery was practically unused until the fighting of May and June, 1918, when Field Ambulances buried in it. After the Armistice the cemetery was increased by graves brought in from the small British cemeteries at Gaudiempre, La Herliere and Couturelle.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is responsible for commemoration of those who died in the two world wars while serving with the forces of the now Commonwealth countries. This commemoration is achieved through marking and maintaining graves for those who are buried, or memorials for those who have no known burial. In addition to providing this Internet access to records of burials/commemorations, assistance is available for more difficult traces, reports on all casualties by name, regiment, home town, date of death etc.

For additional information: http://www.cwgc.org

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