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Military service
Service number:
814728
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Enlistment:
Warkworth, Ontario
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Digital gallery of Private William John Carruthers
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War Memorial
139th Battalion (Northumberland County) War Memorial plaque, 1919. 130 names of men who originally enlisted with this Ontario unit. On display at the Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario. Also shown - Cobourg (Ontario) War Memorial at Victoria Park. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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 571 of 1004.
Digital gallery of
Private William John Carruthers
Digital gallery of
Private William John Carruthers
Digital gallery of
Private William John Carruthers
Digital gallery of
Private William John Carruthers
Digital gallery of
Private William John Carruthers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 213 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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