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Military service
Service number:
814415
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Birth:
November 15, 1897
Alderville, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 23, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
April 5, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of George E. Blaker of Alderville, Ontario.
Brother of Private Victor Blaker, who died while serving with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
Digital gallery of Private William Blaker
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War Memorial
139th Battalion (Northumberland County) War Memorial plaque, 1919. 130 names of men who originally enlisted with this Ontario unit. On display at the Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario. Also shown - Cobourg (Ontario) War Memorial at Victoria Park. -
Inscription
Inscription - Vimy Memorial, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Circumstances of death
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private William Blaker
Digital gallery of
Private William Blaker
Digital gallery of
Private William Blaker
Digital gallery of
Private William Blaker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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