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Military service
Service number:
481
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
2nd Field Coy.
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
May 13, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 2.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Ernest Beers
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Newspaper clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of William Beers
Photo in the book "From the Rideau to the Rhine and back: the 6th Field Company and Battalion Canadian Engineers in the Great War" by K. Weatherbe, published in Toronto in 1928 by Hunter-Rose Co. Ltd. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151. Page 565 of 724.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Ernest Beers
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Ernest Beers
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Ernest Beers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 199 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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