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Military service
Service number:
1015465
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
72nd Bn.
Birth:
May 13, 1896
Glasgow, Scotland
Enlistment:
May 29, 1916
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. H. 32.
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Birch to Blakstad. Mircoform Sequence 10; Volume Number 31829_B034746; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 154 Page 419 of 734 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William Black
Digital gallery of
Private William Black
Digital gallery of
Private William Black
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Commemorated on:
Page 202 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.
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