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Military service
Service number:
931205
Age:
39
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Enlistment:
Michell, British Columbia
Death:
October 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Husband of Sarah Arm Blaney, of 5, Council Houses, New Arrowhawk, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Banks Blaney
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Attestation paper
William Banks Blaney emigrated to British Columbia in 1909 to work in the mines at Michel, B. C. His wife, daughter, and father-in-law came to join him in 1910. He enlisted in 1916 just before his 42nd birthday. -
Attestation paper
Second page of attestation paper which gives a description of William Blaney. He came from a mining family in Cumberland and was 5 ft. 9 in. tall. -
Document
Health record card -
Circumstances of death registers
The war diaries of the 2nd Can. Mounted Rifles show that L/Cpl Blaney died during the 2nd Battle of Passchendaele; an action which raged from October 26th to November 10th, 1917. The figures for the action from Oct. 28th to the 31st showed 291 casualties: 67 killed, 203 wounded, 21 missing. -
Document
Casualty form for L/Cpl Blaney.
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Lance Corporal William Banks Blaney
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Banks Blaney
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Banks Blaney
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Banks Blaney
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Banks Blaney
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Banks Blaney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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