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Military service
Service number:
420386
Age:
27
Rank:
Lance Serjeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
February 3, 1889
Forfar, Scotland
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. E. 36.
Additional information
Son of William Douglas.
Digital gallery of Lance Serjeant William Douglas
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 535 of 1076. He was buried about 1 mile West of Le Sars, 6 ¼ miles North East of Albert. After the Armistice, his body was exhumed and buried in Adanac Military Cemetery. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant William Douglas
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant William Douglas
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant William Douglas
Digital gallery of
Lance Serjeant William Douglas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 79 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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