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Military service
Service number:
552708
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
April 30, 1896
Doune, Perthshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
July 15, 1915
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
April 9, 1917
Vimy, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. B. 16.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Jean Allan, of Calgary, Alberta. He was single and employed as a teamster.
Digital gallery of Private William Anderson Allan
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Newspaper Clipping
News article from the Calgary Herald dated 5 May 1917.
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Commemorated on:
Page 190 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LIEVIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Lievin is a small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3.5 kilometres west of Lens. The Communal Cemetery is on the south-west side of the town on the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle.
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