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Military service
Service number:
180194
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
May 10, 1895
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
November 1, 1915
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
February 17, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. E. 30.
Additional information
Son of William and E. J. Christian, of Liverpool, England.
Digital gallery of Private William Christian
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CHILD TO CLAYTON. Microform Sequence 20; Volume Number 31829_B016729. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 164. Page 195 of 1068. -
War Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 24, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y116uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of February 27, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y68uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
Digital gallery of
Private William Christian
Digital gallery of
Private William Christian
Digital gallery of
Private William Christian
Digital gallery of
Private William Christian
Digital gallery of
Private William Christian
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 384 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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