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Military service
Service number:
129979
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
72nd Bn. attd. 12th Trench Mortar Bty.
Birth:
October 21, 1888
Dundee, Scotland
Enlistment:
October 8, 1915
Death:
November 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 11.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Mary Carswell of 4, Avondale Place, James St., Dundee, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private William James Carswell
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Newspaper Clipping
William Carswell -
Grave Marker
Courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 645 of 1004.
Digital gallery of
Private William James Carswell
Digital gallery of
Private William James Carswell
Digital gallery of
Private William James Carswell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 64 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.
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