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In memory of:

Constable William Harold Lang

Military service

Service number: 294777
Age: 32
Rank: Constable
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Corps Military Police
Birth: June 1, 1886 OWEN SOUND, Ontario
Enlistment: October 14, 1916 Port la Prairie, Manitoba
Death: November 14, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Mil. 147.
Additional information
Son of Margaret Lang, New Westminster, British Columbia, and the late Archibald Brown Lang.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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