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Military service
Service number:
B/36925
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 14, 1914
Dorset, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 15, 1939
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of William James Chilcott and Mary Frances Russell.
Digital gallery of Private William James Chilcott
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Private William James Chilcott is one of seventeen members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William James Chilcott
Digital gallery of
Private William James Chilcott
Digital gallery of
Private William James Chilcott
Digital gallery of
Private William James Chilcott
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 64 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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