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Military service
Service number:
865124
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
December 2, 1891
Sherborne, Dorset, England
Enlistment:
February 25, 1916
Brandon, Manitoba
Death:
November 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Brother of Beatrice Woodrow of Peterborough, Ontario. Husband of Lettitia Sims, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Additional citations
British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private William Sims
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William Sims
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 326 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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