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Military service
Service number:
466655
Age:
31
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn.
Birth:
November 28, 1885
Griswold, Manitoba
Enlistment:
July 16, 1915
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
November 8, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son-in-law of William Widdis of Nanton, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Lance Sergeant William Ernest Buchanan
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The Nanton Cenotaph
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Newspaper Clipping
From The Wingham Advance Times, 4 Sept 1924 -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Ernest Buchanan
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Ernest Buchanan
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Ernest Buchanan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 209 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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