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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
451450
Age:
27
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
July 4, 1891
Brighton, England
Enlistment:
July 14, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
October 1, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. G. 17.
Additional information
Son of Henry Thomas Groves; husband of Catherine Taylor (formerly Groves), of Owen Sound, Ontario.
Additional citations
Military Medal, Supplement to the London Gazette dated 24 January 1919. He subsequently was awarded two bars to his Military Medal.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William John Groves
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Gravemarker
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Valenciennes (St. Roch) Community Cemetery
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Valenciennes' Entrance
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William John Groves
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William John Groves
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William John Groves
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William John Groves
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William John Groves
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William John Groves
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 420 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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