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Military service
Service number:
405295
Age:
32
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
June 5, 1884
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. C. 15.
Additional information
Son of John Higgins; husband of Florence M. Higgins, of Teeswater, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal William John Higgins
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Grave Marker
– The grave marker at the Nine Elms Cemetery located outside Roclincourt, France. It is located about 5 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Inscription
Inscription (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Cemetery
Nine Elms Cemetery – The Nine Elms Cemetery, located at Roclincourt, France. It is about 5 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial in France. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal William John Higgins
Digital gallery of
Corporal William John Higgins
Digital gallery of
Corporal William John Higgins
Digital gallery of
Corporal William John Higgins
Digital gallery of
Corporal William John Higgins
Digital gallery of
Corporal William John Higgins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 256 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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