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Military service
Service number:
880026
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Death:
January 21, 1919
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. I. 8.
Digital gallery of Private William Tecumseh Sherman
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Died - Whist attempting to jump on a train as it passed out of No. 1 Platform, DUREN STATION, at 2.41 a.m. on January 21st, 1919, he fell beneath the train and was seriously injured. He was conveyed to No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station, DUREN, where he died the same day from compound fractures of thighs, right leg, and left ankle.
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Private William Tecumseh Sherman
Digital gallery of
Private William Tecumseh Sherman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 542 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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