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Military service
Service number:
775228
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Mary Bancroft, of Whitby, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
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Photo of Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 837 of 1072. -
Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILFRED LAURENCE BANCROFT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens ... May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens ... May 2022 -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 195 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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