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Corporal Joseph Backus, Assyrian Canadian soldier, newspaper portrait

Date: 1944

Newspaper halftone portrait of Corporal Joseph Backus in a beret and battledress. An Assyrian Canadian of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, he served with the 14th Canadian Hussars and was killed in action on 6 October 1944.

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Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada (Corporal Joseph Backus)

Corporal Joseph Backus, Assyrian Canadian soldier, newspaper portrait

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