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Lieutenant James William Williams

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 87th Bn.
Birth: January 19, 1888 Quebec City
Enlistment: September 20, 1915
Death: November 18, 1916 The Somme, France

Burial/memorial information

BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. I. 1.
Additional information
Son of the Right Reverend Lennox Williams, D.D., Bishop of Quebec and Caroline Annie (nee Rhodes) of Bishopthorpe, Quebec. Husband of Evelyn Fisher (formerly Williams), of Sackville, New Brunswick. Lt. Williams held a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 183 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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