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Military service
Service number:
642638
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Enlistment:
Collingwood, Ontario
Death:
May 3, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Arthur and Martha Capel; husband of Hannah May Capel, of 62, Earlscourt Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Private William Capel
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Photo of WILLIAM CAPEL
From a collage photo layout of members of A Company and the bugle band of the 157th Canadian Infantry Battalion. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 99 of 1004. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private William Capel
Digital gallery of
Private William Capel
Digital gallery of
Private William Capel
Digital gallery of
Private William Capel
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 213 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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